Loquanjing, Luanshai (Jurassic to of China)

Also known as Luochuanjing

Where: Sichuan, China (29.8° N, 104.9° E: paleocoordinates 30.9° N, 110.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Da'anzhai Member (Ziliujing Formation), Aalenian to Aalenian (174.1 - 168.3 Ma)

• The Ziliujing is divided into (in ascending order) Zhenzhuchong, Dongyuemiao, Ma’anshan, and Da’anzhai members. A Toarcian age for the Dongyuemiao Member and an early Middle Jurassic age for the overlying parts of the formation is supported on the basis of macroplants (e.g. Meng et al. 2003. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 42: 525-536)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; red, blue mudstone and gray, white limestone

• from a "purple-red mudstone" above the Daanzhai Member, which is a "gray-white freshwater limestone"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in the 1980s; reposited in the IVPP

Primary reference: Z. Dong, S. Zhou, and H. Zhang. 1983. [Dinosaurs from the Jurassic of Sichuan]. Palaeontologica Sinica, New Series C, Whole Number 162(23):1-136 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 53667: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 13.09.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Saurischia -
Zizhongosaurus chuanchengensis n. gen. n. sp. Dong et al. 1983 sauropod
IVPP V.9067