Where: Shaanxi, China (38.5° N, 110.8° E: paleocoordinates 39.9° N, 88.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• Upper Ermaying Formation has generally been considered to be of Anisian age based upon vertebrate biostratigraphy

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: IGCAGS: Insitute 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 143455: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 23.04.2013

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