Dahai village, Dingxiao town, Xingyi County (Triassic of China)

Where: Guizhou, China (25.2° N, 105.0° E: paleocoordinates 16.1° N, 92.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Zhuganpo Member (Falang Formation), Longobardian (242.0 - 235.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, argillaceous limestone

• Zhuganpo Member includes gray to dark gray thin-bedded marlites and argillaceous limestones, bioclastic limestones, dolomitic limestones, siliceous mudstones.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Reposited in the NIGPAS

Primary reference: R. S. Taylor, F.R. Schram, and Y.-B. Shen. 2001. A new upper Middle Triassic shrimp (Crustacea: Lophogastrida) from Guizhou, China, with discussion regarding other fossil "mysidaceans". Journal of Paleontology 75(2):310-318 [D. Bottjer/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 44717: authorized by David Bottjer, entered by Matthew Clapham on 16.09.2004

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Taxonomic list

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Malacostraca
 Lophogastrida - Eucopiidae
Schimperella acanthocercus n. sp.
Schimperella acanthocercus n. sp. Taylor et al. 2001