Shimen village, Pingquan County, Chenops yixianensis type locality (Cretaceous of China)

Where: Hebei, China (41.0° N, 118.9° E: paleocoordinates 43.3° N, 121.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Yixian Formation (Jehol Group), Late/Upper Barremian (130.0 - 125.5 Ma)

• Early Cretaceous (Barremian) Yixian Formation, Jehol Group

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; lithified, tuffaceous mudstone

• "lake"
• Using lithologies from other Jehol lacustrine settings in PBDB

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collection methods: Repository: Capital Normal University, Beijing

Primary reference: T. A. Hegna and D. Ren. 2010. Two new "notostracans", Chenops gen. nov. and Jeholops gen. nov. (Crustacea: Branchiopoda: ?Notostraca) from the Yixian Formation, northeastern China. Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition) 84(4):886-894 [T. Hegna/T. Hegna/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 230303: authorized by Phil Novack-Gottshall, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 07.06.2023

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Taxonomic list

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Branchiopoda
 Notostraca -
Chenops yixianensis n. gen. n. sp.
Chenops yixianensis n. gen. n. sp. Hegna and Ren 2010 tadpole shrimp