Ophiuroids, Lower Triassic, Qingchang, Guizhou, China (Triassic of China)

Where: Guizhou, China (27.3° N, 105.3° E: paleocoordinates 8.9° N, 94.1° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

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

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine

Preservation: cast

Primary reference: R.-L. Feng. 1985. New discovery of fossil ophiuroids from Guizhou and southern Sichuan, China. Acta Paleontologica Sinica 24(3):337-343 [L. Villier/L. Villier/L. Villier]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 32500: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 06.07.2003

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Taxonomic list

Ophiuroidea
 Ophiurida - Ophiurinidae
Ophiaulax bijiensis n. sp. brittle star