Niubudai village, Banqiao, Luoping (Triassic of China)

Where: Yunnan, China (25.0° N, 104.5° E: paleocoordinates 15.6° N, 92.5° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Regoledanus zone, "4th" Member (Gejiu Formation), Longobardian (242.0 - 235.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; dolomite

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: Z. Sun, M. W. Maisch, W.-C. Hao and D. Jiang. 2005. A Middle Triassic thalattosaur (Reptilia: Diapsida) from Yunnan (China). Neues Jahrbuch fur Geologie und Palaontologie Monatshefte (4)193-206 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 196166: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 06.09.2018

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Thalattosauria - Askeptosauridae
cf. Askeptosaurus sp. Nopcsa 1925 diapsid
GMPKU-P-078
 Eosauropterygia - Nothosauridae
Lariosaurus sp. Curioni 1847 diapsid
GMPKU-P-1079
 Eosauropterygia - Keichousauridae
Keichousaurus hui Young 1958 diapsid
 Nothosauria -
Cephalopoda
 Ceratitida - Trachyceratidae
cf. Anolcites doleriticus von Mojsisovics 1869 ceratite
Frankites sp. Tozer 1971 ceratite
Protrachyceras sp. Mojsisovics 1893 ceratite