Meikuanghoushan, Changxing County (Permian of China)

Where: Zhejiang, China (31.1° N, 119.7° E: paleocoordinates 17.7° N, 101.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Changxing Formation, Changhsingian (254.2 - 252.2 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore ramp; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1962

• Repository: Zhejiang Museum

Primary reference: H. T. Liu and M. N. Chang. 1963. First discovery of helicoprionid in China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 7(2):123-129 [M. Clapham/D. Robinson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 149441: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 05.08.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Eugeneodontiformes - Helicampodontidae
Sinohelicoprion changhsingensis n. gen. n. sp. Liu and Chang 1963 chimaera