Huakedaliang, Dayu township, Jiyuan City (Permian of China)

Also known as Locality 63024

Where: Henan, China (34.9° N, 112.4° E: paleocoordinates 27.9° N, 89.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Shangshihezi Formation, Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)

• Shangshihezi Formation; also referred to as the upper portion of Upper Shihhotse Formation. Correlated to the Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone of South Africa, which is Wuchiapingian in age

•"The Jiyuan fauna, with Honania and Tsiyuania, comes from the Upper Shihezhi (formerly Shihhotse) Formation, of Henan Province in northern China (Fig. 2), which dates from upper Roadian to mid Wuchiapingian, based on palynology (F. Liu et al., 2015) and magnetostratigraphy (Embleton et al., 1996; Stevens et al., 2011). The Jiyuan Fauna is from near the top of the unit, and is dated as late Wuchiapingian (J. Liu et al., 2014) or early Wuchiapingian (F. Liu et al., 2015)." (Benton 2016)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; fine-grained sandstone and concretionary mudstone

• Most known fossils from this locality originate from a thin layer (layer 23), which is dark purple pebbly fine sandstone; although some teeth are also collected from layers 22 and 24, which are dark purple mudstone with calcareous concretion

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the IVPP

• HGM, Henan Geological Museum, Zhenzhou

Primary reference: X. Li, X.-W. Li, S.-H. Jia and J. Liu. 2014. The Jiyuan tetrapod Fauna of the Upper Permian of China—1. New pareiasaur material and the reestablishment of Honania complicidentata. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 92909: authorized by Johannes Mueller, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 07.12.2009, edited by Richard Butler

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Tetrapoda -
Tetrapoda indet.1 Jaekel 1911 tetrapod
Reptilia
 Procolophonomorpha -
"Honania complicidentata n. gen. n. sp." = Honania complicidentata, "Tsiyuania simplicidentata n. gen. n. sp." = Honania complicidentata, "Taihangshania imperfacta n. gen. n. sp." = Honania complicidentata
"Honania complicidentata n. gen. n. sp." = Honania complicidentata Young 1979 parareptile
IVPP V 4015.1 and 2 (syntypes), two isolated dentary teeth. IVPP V 4012.1, parietal; IVPP V 4012.2, prefrontal. IVPP V 4018.14, a broken tooth (formerly Wangwusaurus tayuensis in Young 1979: fig 12i); IVPP V 4019.2, a tiny tooth (formerly Hwanghocynodon multienspidus in Young 1979: fig. 13b). HGM 41HIII 0423, left maxilla; 24, left maxilla; 25, left dentary; 26, right dentary; 27, dorsal vertebra; 28, sacral vertebra with ribs; 29, sacral neural arch with ribs; 30, dorsal rib; 31, right scapula; 32, interclavicle; 33, left clavicle; 34, right ilium; 35, left humerus; 36, right humerus; 37, right ulna; 38, distal end of right radius; 39, right femur; 40, right tibia; 41, quadrate; 42; quadratojugal; 43, metacarpal or metatarsal.
"Tsiyuania simplicidentata n. gen. n. sp." = Honania complicidentata Young 1979 parareptile
IVPP V 4016, five maxillary teeth
"Taihangshania imperfacta n. gen. n. sp." = Honania complicidentata Young 1979 parareptile
IVPP V 4017.1, 3, 11, 36-52, teeth; 5, cervical vertebra; 6, ventral portion of ilium; 7, proximal portion of pubis; 8, posterodorsal portion of ilium; 9, proximal portion of ischium; 10, distal end of ischium; 18, distal end of right radius; 19, fragment of scapula; 20, distal end of left radius; 24, left splenial; 4 25, right splenial; 26, neural arch of dorsal vertebra; 27, caudal vertebra
Osteichthyes
 Therapsida -
? Therapsida indet.1 Broom 1905 therapsid
IVPP V 4014.2, HGM 41HIII0446, vertebrae
? Gorgonopsia indet.1 Seeley 1894 therapsid
HGM 41HIII0448, tooth
Hwanghocynodon multienspidus n. gen. n. sp.2 Young 1979 cynodont
IVPP V 4019.1
 Tetrapoda - Bystrowianidae
Dromotectum largum n. sp.1 Liu et al. 2014 tetrapod
IVPP V 4013.1, an incomplete armor scute
Bystrowiana sinica n. sp.2 Young 1979 tetrapod
IVPP V 4014.1, a small armor scute (holotype). IVPP V 4014.3-4, two armor scutes; HGM 41HIII0445, a vertebra lacking neural spine.
Jiyuanitectum flatum n. gen. n. sp.1 Liu et al. 2014 tetrapod
HGM 41HIII0444, a large armor scute