Shapingpa: Toarcian - Aalenian, China

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
cf. Sanpasaurus yaoi Young 1944
1 specimen
vertebra (caudal?)
    = Sauropoda indet. Marsh 1878
McPhee et al. 2016
see common names

Geography
Country:China State/province:Chongqing
Coordinates: 29.6° North, 106.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:32.2° North, 112.1° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Jurassic
10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 3
Key time interval:Toarcian - Aalenian
Age range of interval:184.20000 - 170.90000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Ziliujing
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:massive sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Degree of concentration:dispersed
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Museum repositories:IVPP
Metadata
Also known as:Shapingba
Database number:140362
Authorizer:M. Carrano, P. Mannion Enterer:M. Carrano, P. Mannion
Modifier:P. Mannion Research group:vertebrate
Created:2013-03-08 08:05:44 Last modified:2016-10-20 16:53:29
Access level:the public Released:2013-03-08 08:05:44
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

45328. C.-C. Young. 1944. On the reptilian remains from Weiyuan, Szechuan, China. Bulletin of the Geological Society of China 24(3–4):187-205 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

60646 B. W. McPhee, P. Upchurch, P. D. Mannion, C. Sullivan, R. J. Butler and P. M. Barrett. 2016. A revision of Sanpasaurus yaoi Young, 1944 from the Early Jurassic of China, and its relevance to the early evolution of Sauropoda (Dinosauria). PeerJ 4:e2578:1-41 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/M. Carrano]