Zhuengeerqi (Triassic of China)

Also known as Zhun ge er qi (Er-Ma-Ying Formation); Ordos Basin, Jungar Qi

Where: Nei Mongol, China (39.7° N, 111.0° E: paleocoordinates 41.0° N, 89.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-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.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified sandstone

• "hard, red sandstone"

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the IVPP

Collection methods: surface (float), mechanical,

Primary reference: J. L. Li. 1983. Tooth replacement in a new genus of procolophonid from the Early Triassic of China. Palaeontology 26(3):567-583 [J. Alroy/R. Whatley/T. Liebrecht]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 92436: authorized by Johannes Mueller, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 12.11.2009, edited by Matthew Carrano and Richard Butler

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Therocephalia -
Yikezhaogia megafenestrala n. gen. n. sp.2 Li 1984 therapsid
IVPP V 7250, incomplete skull (holotype)
 Therocephalia - Ordosidae
"Ordosia youngi n. gen. n. sp." = Ordosiodon youngi1
"Ordosia youngi n. gen. n. sp." = Ordosiodon youngi1 Hou 1979 therapsid
IVPP V 4792, partial skeleton (holotype)
Reptilia
 Diapsida - Euparkeriidae
Turfanosuchus shageduensis n. sp.3 Wu 1982 archosauromorph
IVPP V 6028, mandible and postcranial remains (holotype)
 Parareptilia - Procolophonidae
Eumetabolodon bathycephalus Li 1983 parareptile
IVPP V 6070