Xinzhai Village, Luoping (Triassic of China)

Where: Yunnan, China (24.8° N, 104.3° E: paleocoordinates 10.8° N, 94.2° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Guanling Formation, Anisian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; limestone and shale

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: X.-H. Chen and L. Cheng. 2009. The discovery of Mixosaurus (Reptilia: Ichthyopterygia) from the Middle Triassic of Luoping, Yunnan Province. Acta Geologica Sinica 83(9):1214-1220 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 196553: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 24.09.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ichthyosauria - Mixosauridae
"Mixosaurus kuhnschnyderi" = Mixosaurus kuhnschneyderi
"Mixosaurus kuhnschnyderi" = Mixosaurus kuhnschneyderi Brinkmann 1998 ichthyosaur
YIGM SPCV-0810, skull and partial skeleton