Majiashanosaurus-type locality (Triassic to of China)

Also known as Bed 643, North New Quarry of Majiashan, Liujiawa Village, Chaohu City

Where: Anhui, China (31.6° N, 117.8° E: paleocoordinates 20.1° N, 99.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Neospathodus anhuinensis conodont zone, Upper Member (Nanlinghu Formation), Spathian to Spathian (251.3 - 247.2 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lithology not reported

• Light gray calcareous marls

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Primary reference: D.-Y. Jiang, R. Motani, A. Tintori, O. Rieppel, G.-B. Chen, J.-D. Huang, R. Zhang, Z.-Y. Sun, and C. Ji. 2014. The Early Triassic eosauropterygian Majiashanosaurus discocoracoidis, gen. et sp. nov. (Reptilia, Sauropterygia), from Chaohu, Anhui Province, People’s Republic of China. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 34(5):1044-1052 [G. Lloyd/G. Lloyd]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 194788: authorized by Graeme Lloyd, entered by Graeme Lloyd on 29.06.2018

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Eosauropterygia -
Majiashanosaurus discocoracoidis n. gen. n. sp. Jiang et al. 2014 diapsid
AGM-AGB5954