Taodongguo (Triassic of China)

Also known as South Taodongguo

Where: Xinjiang, China (43.2° N, 89.2° E: paleocoordinates 42.3° N, 87.5° E)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

When: Jiucaiyuan Formation, Early/Lower Triassic (252.2 - 247.2 Ma)

• South Taodongguo section of Yang et al. (2021) Earth Science Reviews

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the IVPP

Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),

Primary reference: L. M. Marilao, Z. T. Kulik, and C. A. Sidor. 2020. Histology of the preparietal: a neomorphic cranial element in dicynodont therapsids. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology [C. Sidor/C. Sidor/C. Sidor]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 224361: authorized by Chris Sidor, entered by Chris Sidor on 20.02.2022

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Dicynodontia - Lystrosauridae
Lystrosaurus cf. hedini Young 1935 dicynodont
IVPP V 22763, incomplete interorbital and intertemporal regions of skull roof of a small, presumably juvenile, individual.