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
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
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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)
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