Wusha, Xingyi (NIGP collection) (Triassic of China)

Where: Guizhou, China (25.1° N, 104.7° E: paleocoordinates 15.8° N, 92.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Zhuganpo Member (Falang Formation), Longobardian (242.0 - 235.0 Ma)

• Lower part of the Zhuganpo Mb

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Reposited in the NIGPAS

• Some specimens in Guizhou Stone Cultural and Artistic Palace and Geological Survey of Guizhou

Primary reference: G. B. Liu, C. Z. Yin, X. H. Wang, Y.M. Luo, and S. Y. Wang. 2003. New discovered fishes from Keichousaurus-bearing horizon of Late Triassic in Xingyi of Guizhou. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 42:346-366 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 146379: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 23.06.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Actinopteri
 Amiiformes - Amiidae
Guizhouamia bellula Liu et al. 2002 bowfin
Osteichthyes
 Palaeonisciformes - Palaeoniscidae
Guizhouniscus microlepidus n. gen. n. sp. Liu 2003
 Ionoscopiformes -
"Guizhouella analilepida n. gen. n. sp." = Asialepidotus shingyiensis
"Guizhouella analilepida n. gen. n. sp." = Asialepidotus shingyiensis Su 1959 ray-finned fish
 Luganoiiformes - Luganoiidae
"Brachysomus minor n. gen. n. sp." = Guizhoubrachysomus minor
"Brachysomus minor n. gen. n. sp." = Guizhoubrachysomus minor Liu 2003 ray-finned fish