Shihketung, 56159, Wuhsiang-YĆ¼she area (Triassic of China)

Where: Shanxi, China (37.0° N, 112.9° E: paleocoordinates 38.1° N, 90.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Perovkan other zone, upper Member (Ermaying Formation), Anisian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)

• Upper Ermaying Formation was referred to the Perovkan LVF of Anisian age by Lucas (2010) based upon vertebrate biostratigraphy

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the IVPP

Primary reference: C.-C. Young. 1964. The pseudosuchians in China. Palaeontologia Sinica 19:1-205 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 101163: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 17.12.2010

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Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Dicynodontia - Shansiodontidae
Shansiodon sp. Yeh 1959 dicynodont
 Dicynodontia - Kannemeyeriidae
"Kannemeyeridae indet." = Kannemeyeriidae
"Kannemeyeridae indet." = Kannemeyeriidae Huene 1948 dicynodont
Reptilia
 Thecodontia -
Shansisuchus heiyuekouensis Young 1964 archosaur
IVPP V.2494A, several vertebrae, coracoid and partial humerus
 Diapsida - Erythrosuchidae
"Shansisuchus shansisuchus" = Shansisuchus shansisuchus, "Fenhosuchus cristatus" = Shansisuchus shansisuchus
"Shansisuchus shansisuchus" = Shansisuchus shansisuchus Young 1964 archosauromorph
IVPP V.2494, nasal, upper and lower jaws and teeth, vertebrae
"Fenhosuchus cristatus" = Shansisuchus shansisuchus Young 1964 archosauromorph
IVPP V.2494B, vertebrae, tibia, astragalus and osteoderms