Wusha, Xingyi (IVPP collection) (Triassic of China)

Where: Guizhou, China (25.1° N, 104.7° E: paleocoordinates 15.8° N, 92.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Reposited in the IVPP

Primary reference: O. Rieppel, J. Liu, and C. Li. 2006. A new species of the thalattosaur genus Anshunsaurus (Reptilia: Thalattosauria) from the Middle Triassic of Guizhou Province, southwestern China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 44(4):285-296 [M. Carrano/H. Street]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 98907: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Hallie Street on 22.10.2010, edited by Matthew Clapham and Bethany Allen

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Actinopteri
 Peltopleuriformes - Wushaichthyidae
Wushaichthys exquisitus n. gen. n. sp.5
Wushaichthys exquisitus n. gen. n. sp.5 Xu et al. 2015
IVPP V19959, V19960, V19961
 Peltopleuriformes - Peltopleuridae
Peltopleurus tyrannos4 Xu et al. 2018
IVPP V19987
Reptilia
 Thalattosauria - Askeptosauridae
Anshunsaurus huangnihensis n. sp.1 Cheng et al. 2007 diapsid
YIGM V 13782
Anshunsaurus wushaensis Rieppel et al. 2006 diapsid
IVPP V 13782, KM 512
 Eosauropterygia -
Wangosaurus brevirostris n. gen. n. sp.2
Wangosaurus brevirostris n. gen. n. sp.2 Ma et al. 2015 diapsid
GMPKU-P-1529, nearly complete skeleton
 Ichthyosauria - Toretocnemidae
Qianichthyosaurus xingyiensis n. sp.6 Yang et al. 2013 ichthyosaur
 Diapsida - Tanystropheidae
Macrocnemus cf. fuyuanensis7 Li et al. 2007 archosauromorph
Osteichthyes
 Ionoscopiformes -
Asialepidotus sp. Su 1959 ray-finned fish
Asialepidotus shingyiensis3 Su 1959 ray-finned fish