Tanankou, 56155, Wuhsiang-Yüshe area: Anisian, China

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anomodontia - Kannemeyeriidae
Parakannemeyeria sp. Sun 1960
Reptilia - Erythrosuchidae
Shansisuchus shansisuchus Young 1964
1 individual
IVPP V.2512, atlas, humerus and claw belonging to a single large individual
see common names

Geography
Country:China State/province:Shanxi
Coordinates: 37.0° North, 112.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:38.1° North, 90.4° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Triassic Epoch: Middle Triassic
Stage: Anisian 10 m.y. bin: Triassic 2
Key time interval: Anisian Other zone:  Perovkan
Age range of interval: 247.2 - 242 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Ermaying Member:upper
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Upper Ermaying Formation was referred to the Perovkan LVF of Anisian age by Lucas (2010) based upon vertebrate biostratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:IVPP
Metadata
Database number:101162
Authorizer:R. Butler Enterer:R. Butler
Modifier:R. Butler Research group:vertebrate
Created:2010-12-17 23:15:25 Last modified:2010-12-17 06:23:33
Access level:the public Released:2010-12-17 23:15:25
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
34560. C.-C. Young. 1964. The pseudosuchians in China. Palaeontologia Sinica 19:1-205 [R. Butler/R. Butler]