Also known as Dawazi, bed 165
Where: Yunnan, China (24.8° N, 104.3° E: paleocoordinates 10.8° N, 94.2° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Guanling Formation, Pelsonian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)
• Bed 165
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: adpression
Collected by Qiyue Zhang
Primary reference: J. Liu, S.-X. Hu, O. Rieppel, D.-Y. Jiang, M. J. Benton, N. P. Kelley, J. C. Aitchison, C.-Y. Zhou, W. Wen, J.-Y. Huang, T. Xie and T. Lv. 2014. A gigantic nothosaur (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) from the Middle Triassic of SW China and its implication for the Triassic biotic recovery. Scientific Reports 4:7142 [G. Lloyd/G. Lloyd]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 194777: authorized by Graeme Lloyd, entered by Graeme Lloyd on 29.06.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Nothosaurus zhangi n. sp.
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