Where: Guizhou, China (26.6° N, 106.3° E: paleocoordinates 15.8° N, 94.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Triassic (247.2 - 237.0 Ma)

• ?Ladinian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

• Lectotype - Anterior end of left mandible; Paratypes - vertebrae and neural arches, limb elements

Primary reference: O. Rieppel. 1999. The sauropterygian genera Chinchenia, Kwangsisaurus, and Sanchiaosaurus from the Lower and Middle Triassic of China. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 19(2):321-337 [M. Carrano/H. Street]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 97985: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Hallie Street on 13.09.2010

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