Also known as Beigou, Watang

Where: Shanxi, China (38.5° N, 111.1° E: paleocoordinates 39.8° N, 89.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Member (Ermaying Formation), Anisian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)

• The lower Ermaying Formation is of probable early Anisian age (e.g. Fröbisch 2009: Earth-Science Reviews 95, 119-157). It overlies the Heshanggou Formation of inferred Olenekian to earliest Anisian age, and underlies the upper Ermaying Formation of inferred Anisian age. The presence of the dicynodont Kannemeyeria within the lower Ermaying suggests correlation with Cynognathus Assemblage Zone Subzone B of South Africa, which is of early Anisian age.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: IGCAGS: Institute of Geology of the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, Beijing

Primary reference: Z.-W. Cheng. 1980. [Vertebrate Fossils]. Mesozoic Stratigraphy and Paleontology of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Basin 115-170 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 143463: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 23.04.2013

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