Where: Guangxi, China (23.2° N, 108.3° E: paleocoordinates 8.2° N, 98.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Beisi Formation, Olenekian (251.2 - 247.2 Ma)

• "from the Loulou Group of the Beisi Formation" (??)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gray limestone

Size class: macrofossils

• vertebral column with ribs and limb elements

Reposited in the IVPP

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 97989: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Hallie Street on 13.09.2010

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