Hukou waterfall (Triassic of China)

Where: Shanxi, China (36.1° N, 110.4° E: paleocoordinates 37.6° N, 87.8° 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; sandy mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 2010

Primary reference: R. Wang, S. Xu, X. Wu, C. Li, and S. Wang. 2013. A new specimen of Shansisuchus shansisuchus Young, 1964 (Diapsida: Archosauriformes) from the Triassic of Shanxi, China. Acta Geologica Sinica 87(5):1185-1197 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 175580: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 15.12.2015

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Diapsida - Erythrosuchidae
Shansisuchus shansisuchus Young 1964 archosauromorph
SXMG V 00002, articulated skull and anterior skeleton