Also known as Dazhai, Dingxiao

Where: Guizhou, China (25.2° N, 105.0° E: paleocoordinates 16.0° N, 92.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Falang Formation, Longobardian (242.0 - 235.0 Ma)

• May be derived from the Kuanling Series = Guanling Fm, but now placed in the Falang Formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gray, white, calcareous shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected by C.C. Hu, N.H. Niu, T.T. Ts'ao in 1957

Primary reference: C.-C. Young. 1958. On the new Pachypleurosauroidea from Keichow, south-west China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 2(2-3):72-81 [M. Carrano/H. Street]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 98691: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Hallie Street on 19.10.2010, edited by Christina Feng

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