Where: Guizhou, China (25.5° N, 104.8° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 10.7° S, 107.3° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Nicoraella germanicus conodont zone, Upper Member (Guanling Formation), Anisian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)

• "a horizon about 50 cm thick in the Upper Member of the Guanling Formation"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; mixed carbonate-siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 2002-2008; reposited in the IVPP

• the ichthyosaurs "were collected by a field party from Peking University in 2002"; the three most complete Wumangosaurus were collected in late 2008

Primary reference: D.-Y. Jiang, W.-C. Hao, M. W. Maisch, A. T. Matzke, and Y.-L. Sun. 2005. A basal mixosaurid ichthyosaur from the Middle Triassic of China. Palaeontology 48(4):869-882 [M. Carrano/H. Street]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 104866: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Hallie Street on 11.02.2011

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