Where: Shanxi, China (37.8° N, 110.7° E: paleocoordinates 40.7° N, 88.7° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: I Member (Tongchuan Formation), Anisian to Anisian (247.2 - 237.0 Ma)
• Member 1 of the Tongchuan Formation. Liu et al. (2013) reported a radioisotopic date of 243.1 +/- 3.9 Ma for the base of the Tongchuan Formation, supporting an Anisian-Ladinian age for Member 1
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; muddy siltstone and sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected in 2010; reposited in the IVPP
Primary reference: J. Liu. 2015. New discoveries from the Sinokannemeyeria-Shansisuchus Assemblage Zone: 1. Kannemeyeriiformes from Shanxi, China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 53(1):16-28 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 175579: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 15.12.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Parakannemeyeria sp. Sun 1960 dicynodont VPP V 19364, occiput, quadrate, quadratojugal; right caniniform process with tusk, one centrum, five neural arches, four sacral vertebrae with ribs; right ilium, left and right radius, left and right tibiae, one claw
Sinokannemeyeria baidaoyuensis n. sp. Liu 2015 dicynodont IVPP V 19363, an anterior portion of skull with lower jaw, a cervical, a rib, a left humerus, a left radius, an incomplete right ilium, a left femur , and a left tibia
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