Layer 42, Nimaigu Village, Wusha Township, Xingyi (Triassic of China)

Where: Guizhou, China (25.2° N, 104.8° E: paleocoordinates 15.9° N, 92.6° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Zhuganpo Member (Falang Formation), Longobardian (242.0 - 235.0 Ma)

• Mid-Late Ladinian in age, below ammonoids of the Sutherlandi zone (Zou et al., 2015)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collection methods: Repository: Geological Museum of the Peking University, Paleontological collection (GMPKU).

Primary reference: A. Tintori, Z. Y. Sun, C. Lombardo, D. Y. Jiang, C. Ji and R. Motani. 2012. A new "flying" fish from the upper Ladinian (Middle Triassic) of Wusha (Guizhou Province, southern China). Gortania 33:39-50 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 122723: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 05.01.2012, edited by Matthew Clapham and Bethany Allen

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ceratitida - Sturiidae
? Parasturia sp.2 Spath 1951 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Ceratitidae
Detoniceras sp.1 Manfrin and Mietto 1991 ceratite
Actinopteri
 Peltopleuriformes - Thoracopteridae
"Thoracopterus wushaensis" = Potanichthys wushaensis
"Thoracopterus wushaensis" = Potanichthys wushaensis Tintori et al. 2012
GMPKU-P-3071