Also known as Shenmu
Where: Shaanxi, China (38.8° N, 110.5° E: paleocoordinates 41.7° N, 115.1° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Anding Formation, Middle Jurassic (174.1 - 163.5 Ma)
• informal name for bed = "ShĂȘn-mu" formation
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified, coarse-grained sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression, trace
Collected in 1929
Collection methods: quarrying,
Primary reference: P. Teilhard de Chardin and C.-C. Young. 1929. On some traces of vertebrate life in the Jurassic and Triassic beds of Shansi and Shensi. Bulletin of the Geological Society of China 8(2):131-133 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 39232: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 24.05.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Sinoichnites youngi n. gen. n. sp.
Sinoichnites youngi n. gen. n. sp. Kuhn 1958 dinosaur |