Jingyuan Formation, Jingyuan, Gansu Province (Carboniferous of China)

Where: Gansu, China (36.6° N, 104.7° E: paleocoordinates 5.7° N, 62.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Jingyuan Formation, Serpukhovian (330.9 - 323.2 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified lime mudstone

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: N. Wang, J. Fan, and W. Wang. 2004. Early Carboniferous Fishes (Acanthodian, Actinopterygians, and Chondrichthyes) from the East Sector of North Qilian Mountain, China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 42(2):89-110 [M. Clapham/P. Elliott]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 120299: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Phillip Elliott on 10.11.2011

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Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Symmoriiformes - Symmoriidae
Stethacanthus cf. altonensis St. John and Worthen 1875 elasmobranch
Stethacanthus gansuensis n. sp. Wang et al. 2004 elasmobranch
 Symmoriiformes - Falcatidae
Denaea sp. Pruvost 1922 elasmobranch