Dawazi, bed D37, Luoping County (Triassic of China)

Where: Yunnan, China (24.8° N, 104.3° E: paleocoordinates 10.8° N, 94.2° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Nicoraella kockeli conodont zone, Guanling Formation, Pelsonian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)

• Several horizons in a 1 m-thick interval from just below D37 to above it.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, argillaceous limestone

• Marly limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collection methods: mechanical

• Repository: Geological Museum of Peking University, Beijing, China.

Primary reference: F. Wu, Y. Sun, G. Xu, W. Hao, D. Jiang and Z. Sun. 2011. New Saurichthyid Actinopterygian Fishes from the Anisian (Middle Triassic) of Southwestern China. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 56(3):581-614 [M. Clapham/P. Vazquez]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 131077: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Priscilla Vazquez on 19.07.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Saurichthyiformes - Saurichthyidae
Sinosaurichthys minuta n. sp. Wu et al. 2011 ray-finned fish
GMPKU-P1382, 1390, 1929, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1936, 1938, 1948