Hutaikou, 56160, Nwc E. D., Tachang (Triassic of China)

Also known as Dachang, Ningwu, Taichang, Hutaigou

Where: Shanxi, China (39.0° N, 112.3° E: paleocoordinates 40.1° N, 90.3° 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 101166: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 17.12.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Thecodontia -
Shansisuchus heiyuekouensis Young 1964 archosaur
IVPP V.2696, six sacral and caudal vertebrae
 Diapsida - Erythrosuchidae
Shansisuchus shansisuchus Young 1964 archosauromorph
IVPP V2502, dorsal and sacral vertebrae and limb bones
Osteichthyes
 Dicynodontia - Kannemeyeriidae
Parakannemeyeria sp. Sun 1960 dicynodont
IVPP V 980
Parakannemeyeria dolichocephala n. gen. n. sp.1 Sun 1960 dicynodont
IVPP V.973, complete skull and partial postcranium
Parakannemeyeria ningwuensis n. sp.2 Sun 1963 dicynodont
IVPP V 983, complete skull with lower jaws