Nanshenghu (Triassic of China)

Where: Guizhou, China (26.7° N, 108.3° E: paleocoordinates 16.9° N, 96.1° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Triassic (247.2 - 237.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; mudstone

• Nanpanjiang basin, which had evolved to a peripheral foreland basin of the Indosinian orogeny by the Middle-Late Triassic

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: Q. B. Lin. 1978. Upper Permian and Triassic fossil insects of Guizhou. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 17(3):313-317 [M. Clapham/J. Karr]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 146281: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 20.06.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Reculida - Chaulioditidae
"Nivopteria nanshenghuensis n. gen. n. sp." = Chauliodites nanshenghuensis
"Nivopteria nanshenghuensis n. gen. n. sp." = Chauliodites nanshenghuensis Lin 1978 winged insect
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