Shanggan Sha4, Leye County (Triassic of China)

Where: Guangxi, China (24.8° N, 106.5° E: paleocoordinates 5.8° N, 96.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Proptychites candidus ammonoid zone, Luolou Formation, Dienerian (250.5 - 251.2 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified packstone

• Coquinoid lens in limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: T. Brühwiler, A. Brayard, H. Bucher and G. D. Kuang. 2008. Griesbachian and Dienerian (Early Triassic) ammonoid faunas from northwestern Guangxi and southern Guizhou (south China). Palaeontology 51(5):1151-1180 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 104967: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 12.02.2011, edited by Bethany Allen

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Ceratitida - Proptychitidae
Pleurogyronites sp.
Pleurogyronites sp. Tozer 1994 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Mullericeratidae
Ussuridiscus varaha1
Ussuridiscus varaha1 Diener 1895 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Gyronitidae
Ambites bjerageri2, "Prionolobus cf. atavus" = Ambites atavus
Ambites bjerageri2 Ware and Bucher 2018 ceratite
"Prionolobus cf. atavus" = Ambites atavus Waagen 1895 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Ophiceratidae
Shangganites shangganense n. gen. n. sp.
Shangganites shangganense n. gen. n. sp. Brühwiler et al. 2008 ceratite
1Shigeta and Zakharov 2009; 2Ware and Bucher 2018