Heiyukou, 60116, Shinghsien (Triassic of China)

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 101168: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 17.12.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Dicynodontia - Kannemeyeriidae
Parakannemeyeria sp. Sun 1960 dicynodont
Reptilia
 Diapsida - Erythrosuchidae
Shansisuchus shansisuchus Young 1964 archosauromorph
 Thecodontia -
Shansisuchus heiyuekouensis n. sp. Young 1964 archosaur
IVPP V.2513, maxilla, vertebrae, partial limb bones