Where: Yunnan, China (25.7° N, 104.1° E: paleocoordinates 34.5° N, 107.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Zhangjia'ao Member (Lufeng Formation), Sinemurian (199.3 - 190.8 Ma)

• "Dark Red Beds"

•The Lufeng Formation has been divided into lower dark/dull purple beds (= Shawan Member) and upper dark/deep red beds (= Zhangjiawa Member). Luo & Wu (1994: In the Shadow of the Dinosaurs, pp. 251–270) argue on the basis of vertebrate biostratigraphy for a probable Sinemurian age for the Zhangjiawa Member and a Hettangian age for the Shawan Member.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; red siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the IVPP

Collection methods: quarrying,

Primary reference: C.-C. Young. 1948. Further notes on Gyposaurus sinensis Young. Bulletin of the Geological Society of China 28(1-2):91-103 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 47081: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 07.02.2005, edited by Richard Butler

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