Also known as Gaoping, Dazu

Where: Chongqing, China (29.8° N, 105.7° E: paleocoordinates 32.1° N, 111.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Ziliujing Formation, Toarcian to Toarcian (182.7 - 168.3 Ma)

• "probably belongs to the Tzeliuching Series"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, red, sandy limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the IVPP

Primary reference: H.-T. Liu. 1961. The discovery of Teleosaurus in China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 1(3):69-71 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant/J. Tennant]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 154959: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Jonathan Tennant on 24.03.2014

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