Cuifeng Mountain, Yangquan (Permian of China)

Where: Shanxi, China (37.8° N, 113.5° E: paleocoordinates 30.3° N, 91.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Sunjiagou Formation, Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)

• "Basal layer of the Sunjiagou Formation (Wuchiapingian) (Liu, 2018)"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; red mudstone

• "The fossil was collected from the red mudstone of the basal layer of the Sunjiagou Formation"

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: "The specimen was collected from Cuifeng Mountain, Yangquan by a local (Bai Zhi-jun) during the 2010s and curated under YQZY."

Primary reference: J. Chen and J. Liu. 2020. The youngest occurrence of embolomeres (Tetrapoda: Anthracosauria) from the Sunjiagou Formation (Lopingian, Permian) of North China. Fossil Record 23:205-213 [E. Dunne/E. Dunne]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 216281: authorized by Emma Dunne, entered by Emma Dunne on 10.12.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Osteichthyes
 Tetrapoda -
Seroherpeton yangquanensis n. gen. n. sp.
Seroherpeton yangquanensis n. gen. n. sp. Chen and Liu 2020 tetrapod
Holotype: YQZY JZ 1, a partially preserved right upper jaw and palate.