near Sankeshu (Three Trees) Village (Jurassic of China)

Where: Yunnan, China (25.1° N, 102.1° E: paleocoordinates 34.3° N, 104.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Shawan Member (Lufeng Formation), Hettangian (201.3 - 199.3 Ma)

• "The specimens were from the base of the Shawan Member of the Lower Jurassic Lufeng Formation, composed of dark purple silty mudstones."

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; mudstone

• "dark purple silty mudstones"

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: Y. M. Wang, H. L. You, and T. Wang. 2017. A new basal sauropodiform dinosaur from the Lower Jurassic of Yunnan Province, China. Scientific Reports 7(41881) [R. Butler/E. Dunne]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 194385: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Emma Dunne on 19.06.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Saurischia -
Xingxiulong chengi n. gen. n. sp.
Xingxiulong chengi n. gen. n. sp. Wang et al. 2017 sauropodomorph
LFGT D0002 (Holotype: partial skill and mandible and fragments of postcranial skeleton), D0001 (postcrania) and D0003 (partial skill with mandible and partial postcranial skeleton)