Also known as Chongqing, Chungking
Where: Sichuan, China (29.6° N, 106.6° E: paleocoordinates 28.5° N, 110.4° E)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Jurassic (161.5 - 145.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected in 1951; reposited in the IVPP
• Unearthed during the clearing away the building foundation in Tatienwan, a suburb of Chungking (=Chongqing). Only Hsisosuchus chungkingensis and cf. Sanpasaurus yaoi are certainly from this locality. Other taxa may be from nearby but their precise locality data is lost.
Primary reference: C.-C. Young and M.-C. Chow. 1953. New fossil reptiles from Szechuan China. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 1(3):87-109 [R. Benson/R. Benson/P. Mannion]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 131872: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 01.08.2012, edited by Jonathan Tennant, David Nicholson and Philip Mannion
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Sauropoda indet.2 sauropod IVPP V715: three vertebrae, a radius, a proximal ulna, a right femur, and a ?fibula
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Hsisosuchus chungkingensis n. gen. n. sp.
Hsisosuchus chungkingensis n. gen. n. sp. Young and Chow 1953 crocodilian IVPP V703-V704 (holotype skull and osteoderms)
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"Plesiochelys latimarginalis n. sp." = Chengyuchelys latimarginalis, Chengyuchelys baenoides n. sp.1
"Plesiochelys latimarginalis n. sp." = Chengyuchelys latimarginalis Young and Chow 1953 turtle IVPP V705 (holotype partial shell)
Chengyuchelys baenoides n. sp.1 Young and Chow 1953 turtle Holotype IVPP V 708, Paratype IVPP V 710. Precise locality data unknown
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"Plesiochelys chungkingensis n. sp." = Tienfuchelys chungkingensis
"Plesiochelys chungkingensis n. sp." = Tienfuchelys chungkingensis Young and Chow 1953 turtle IVPP V707 (holotype partial shell)
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Sinaspideretes wimani n. gen. n. sp.3
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