PBDB Collection

Xinmin, Panxian County (IVPP) (Triassic of China)

Also known as Qianosuchus holotype site

Where: Guizhou, China (25.7° N, 104.5° E: paleocoordinates 11.7° N, 93.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Guanling Formation, Pelsonian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)

• Not clear if fossils are collected from a restricted stratigraphic horizon, or from multiple layers

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; limestone

• "Near shore platform or lagoon"

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the IVPP

Primary reference: C. Li, X. -C. Wu, Y. Cheng, T. Sato, and L. Wang. 2006. An unusual archosaurian from the marine Triassic of China. Naturwissenschaften 93(4):200-206 [R. Butler/R. Butler/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 88049: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 31.03.2009, edited by Matthew Clapham and Roger Benson

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Taxonomic list

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Osteichthyes
Osteichthyes -	Osteichthyes indet.³ Osteichthyes indet.³ Huxley 1880 bony fish
Reptilia
Diapsida - Tanystropheidae	Dinocephalosaurus orientalis n. gen. n. sp.¹ Dinocephalosaurus orientalis n. gen. n. sp.¹ Li 2003 archosauromorph IVPP V13767 (holotype), skull and lower jaw with anterior cervical vertebrae; IVPP V13898, nearly complete skeleton
Pseudosuchia -	Qianosuchus mixtus n. gen. n. sp. Qianosuchus mixtus n. gen. n. sp. Li et al. 2006 archosaur IVPP V13899 (holotype), complete skeleton; IVPP V14300 (paratype), incomplete skeleton; NMNS 000408/F003877, incomplete skull
Diapsida - Saurosphargidae	Largocephalosaurus qianensis n. sp.² Largocephalosaurus qianensis n. sp.² Li et al. 2013 diapsid IVPP V 15638 (holotype), a nearly complete skeleton in ventral view, with posterior-most section of the tail missing; GMPKU-P-1532-A, a skull with a cervical vertebra in dorsal view. GMPKU-P-1532-B, an incomplete postcranial skeleton in dorsal view, with the posterior portion of the mandible but missing most of the tail; all are from "Xinmin District, Panxian County, southwest-most Guizhou Province, P. R. China; Member II of the Guanling Formation, Anisian, Middle Triassic"
Ichthyosauria -	Ichthyosauria indet.³ Ichthyosauria indet.³ ichthyosaur
Osteichthyes
Panxianichthyiformes - Panxianichthyidae	Panxianichthys imparilis n. gen. n. sp.⁵ Panxianichthys imparilis n. gen. n. sp.⁵ Xu and Shen 2015 ray-finned fish IVPP V 19971, 19972
Actinopteri
Perleidiformes - Colobodontidae	Feroxichthys panzhouensis n. sp.⁴ Feroxichthys panzhouensis n. sp.⁴ Ma et al. 2021 IVPP V16520

¹Li 2003; ²Li et al. 2013; ³Li et al. 2004; ⁴Ma et al. 2021; ⁵Xu and Shen 2015