Where: Yunnan, China (25.6° N, 102.3° E: paleocoordinates 34.4° N, 105.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lufeng Formation, Hettangian to Hettangian (201.3 - 190.8 Ma)

• The Lufeng Formation has been divided into lower dark/dull purple beds (= Shawan Member) and upper dark/deep red beds (= Zhangjiawa Member). Luo & Wu (1994: In the Shadow of the Dinosaurs, pp. 251–270) argue on the basis of vertebrate biostratigraphy for a probable Sinemurian age for the Zhangjiawa Member and a Hettangian age for the Shawan Member.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: T. Sekiya. 2010. [A new prosauropod dinosaur from Lower Jurassic in Lufeng of Yunnan]. Global Geology 29(1):6-15 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 100542: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 10.12.2010

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