Hejiachuan, Shenmu (Triassic of China)

Where: Shaanxi, China (38.5° N, 110.8° E: paleocoordinates 39.9° N, 88.7° 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

Primary reference: Z.-W. Cheng. 1980. [Vertebrate Fossils]. Mesozoic Stratigraphy and Paleontology of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Basin 115-170 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 101171: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 18.12.2010

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Diapsida - Erythrosuchidae
Shansisuchus kuyeheensis n. sp. Cheng 1980 archosauromorph
IGCAGS V 314, anterior half of a skeleton with partial skull
Osteichthyes
 Dicynodontia - Shansiodontidae
"Shansiodon shaanbeiensis n. sp." = Shansiodon wuhsiangensis
"Shansiodon shaanbeiensis n. sp." = Shansiodon wuhsiangensis Yeh 1959 dicynodont
IGCAGS V 320, nearly complete skull (holotype)