Also known as Tanghai Village

Where: Yunnan, China (25.0° N, 102.1° E: paleocoordinates 34.2° N, 104.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Shawan Member (Lufeng Formation), Hettangian (201.3 - 199.3 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: J. Lü, Y. Kobayashi, T. Li and S. Zhong. 2010. A new basal sauropod dinosaur from the Lufeng Basin, Yunnan Province, southwestern China. Acta Geologica Sinica 84(6):1336-1342 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 101071: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 16.12.2010

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