Southeastern Luxi County (Triassic of China)

Where: Yunnan, China (24.5° N, 103.8° E: paleocoordinates 10.3° N, 94.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: II Member (Guanling Formation), Pelsonian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collection methods: Repository: Chengdu Institute of Geology and Mineral Resources

Primary reference: J. Y. Huang, R. M. Feldmann, C. E. Schweitzer, S. X. Hu, C. Y. Zhou, M. J. Benton, Q. Y. Zhang, W. Wen, and T. Xie. 2013. A new shrimp (Decapoda, Dendrobranchiata, Penaeoidea) from the Middle Triassic of Yunnan, southwest China. Journal of Paleontology 87:603-611 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 148408: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 19.07.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Aegeridae
Aeger luxii n. sp.
Aeger luxii n. sp. Huang et al. 2013 decapod