Tachung-Putsaowan, Lufeng (Jurassic to of China)

Also known as Tachun, Dachung, Putaowan

Where: Yunnan, China (25.2° N, 102.1° E: paleocoordinates 34.1° N, 106.5° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lufeng Formation, Hettangian to Hettangian (201.3 - 190.8 Ma)

• 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. It is not clear which member this locality belongs to.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Lee in the 1940s; reposited in the IVPP

Primary reference: C.-C. Young. 1947. On Lufengosaurus magnus Young (sp. nov.) and additional finds of Lufengosaurus huenei Young. Palaeontologia Sinica, New Series C, Whole Series No. 132 12:1-53 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 71803: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 10.05.2007, edited by Richard Butler

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Saurischia - Massospondylidae
Lufengosaurus magnus Young 1941 sauropodomorph
IVPP V276
 Theropoda -
Sinosaurus triassicus Young 1940 China lizard
IVPP V504, maxilla with four teeth