Huangchiatien, Lufeng: Sinemurian, China
collected by Young

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
cf. Pachysuchus imperfectus Young 1951
Young 1951 3 specimens
IVPP V56a, 87a, 87b
    = Archosauria indet. Cope 1869
Barrett and Xu 2012
Reptilia - Anchisauridae
Gyposaurus sinensis Young 1940
5 specimens
IVPP V43, V45, 46, 55, 95
Reptilia
Pachysuchus imperfectus n. gen., n. sp. Young 1951
Young 1951 1 specimen
nomen dubium belonging to Sauropodomorpha
IVPP V40; orig. ID as L. magnus
Massopoda indet. Yates 2007
Peyre de Fabrègues et al. 2021
CVEB22001
Reptilia - Massospondylidae
Lufengosaurus huenei Young 1940
3 specimens
IVPP V44, V50, V273
Lufengosaurus magnus Young 1941
2 specimens
IVPP V51, V56
Reptilia
Yunnanosaurus huangi n. gen., n. sp. Young 1940
Young 1940 6 specimens
IVPP V20 (holotype), V54, V47, V61, V62, V63, V96, V264
Yunnanosaurus robustus n. sp. Young 1951
Young 1951 2 specimens
IVPP V93 (holotype), partial skeleton.V94
Yunnanosaurus cf. robustus Young 1951
Young 1951 1 specimen
IVPP V39, tooth
Sinosaurus triassicus n. gen., n. sp. Young 1940
Young 1948 4 specimens
IVPP V 34 (holotype), maxilla and other jaw fragments. IVPP V97, postcrania. V36, 37, teeth
cf. Sinosaurus triassicus Young 1940
Young 1951 1 specimen
IVPP V88, ilium
Ceratosauroidea indet. Novas?
Welles and Long 1974 1 specimen
IVPP V73, astragalus
    = ? Coelophysoidea indet. Holtz 1994
Irmis 2004
Microchampsa scutata n. gen., n. sp. Young 1951
Young 1951 1 specimen
nomen dubium belonging to Crocodyliformes
IVPP V 87 (holotype), vertebrae
Platyognathus hsui n. gen., n. sp. Young 1944
Young 1944 1 specimen
IVPP V 71 (holotype), partial skull (lost in WW2).
Lukousaurus yini n. gen., n. sp. Young 1940
Young 1948 2 specimens
IVPP V 23 (holotype), skull. IVPP V263, tooth
Reptilia - Parasuchia
Parasuchia indet. (Huxley)
Young 1951 1 specimen
synonym of Phytosauria
IVPP V87a, basioccipital
unclassified
Kunminia minima n. gen., n. sp. Young 1947
Young 1947 1 specimen
IVPP V 70 (holotype), skull
see common names

Geography
Country:China State/province:Yunnan
Coordinates: 25.2° North, 102.1° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:33.8° North, 105.8° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Early/Lower Jurassic
Stage:Sinemurian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 1
Key time interval:Sinemurian
Age range of interval:199.30000 - 190.80000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Lufeng Member:Zhangjia'ao
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Stratigraphy comments: The Lufeng Formation has been divided into lower dark/dull purple beds (= Shawan Member) and upper dark/deep red beds (= Zhangjiawa Member). Luo & Wu (1994: In the Shadow of the Dinosaurs, pp. 251–270) argue on the basis of vertebrate biostratigraphy for a probable Sinemurian age for the Zhangjiawa Member and a Hettangian age for the Shawan Member.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Associated major elements:some
Disassociated major elements:some
Disassociated minor elements:some
Fragmentation:frequent
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:IVPP
Collectors:Young
Metadata
Also known as:Dahungtien; Dahuangtian, Huang-chia-tien, Huang Jia Tian
Database number:49773
Authorizer:M. Carrano, R. Butler, P. Mannion Enterer:M. Carrano, R. Butler, P. Mannion
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-04-25 13:51:10 Last modified:2023-07-20 14:23:59
Access level:the public Released:2005-04-25 13:51:10
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

12541.ETE C.-C. Young. 1948. Further notes on Gyposaurus sinensis Young. Bulletin of the Geological Society of China 28(1-2):91-103 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

43940 P. M. Barrett and X. Xu. 2012. The enigmatic reptile Pachysuchus imperfectus Young, 1951 from the Lower Lufeng Formation (Lower Jurassic) of Yunnan, China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 50(2):151-159 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
24404ETE R. B. Irmis. 2004. First report of Megapnosaurus (Theropoda: Coelophysoidea) from China. PaleoBios 24(3):11-18 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
34570 Z. Luo and X.-C. Wu. 1994. The small tetrapods of the Lower Lufeng Formation, Yunnan, China. In N. C. Fraser, H.-D. Sues (eds.), In the Shadow of the Dinosaurs: Early Mesozoic Tetrapods. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 251-270 [R. Butler/R. Butler]
76405 C. Peyre de Fabrègues, S. Bai, T. Ai and X. Xu. 2021. A juvenile specimen of Sauropodomorpha from the Lower Jurassic of China and a brief review of the Lufeng sauropodomorph fauna. Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition) 95(2):319-332 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/M. Carrano]
43953 S. P. Welles and R. A. Long. 1974. The tarsus of theropod dinosaurs. Annals of the South African Museum 64:191-218 [R. Butler/R. Butler]
12539ETE C.-C. Young. 1940. Preliminary notes on the Lufeng vertebrate fossils. Bulletin of the Geological Society of China 20(3-4):235-239 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Uhen]
24261ETE C.-C. Young. 1944. On a supposed new pseudosuchian from Upper Triassic saurischian-bearing Red Beds of Lufeng, Yunnan, China. American Museum Novitates 1264:1-4 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/R. Butler]
43814 C.-C. Young. 1947. Mammal-like reptiles from Lufeng, Yunnan, China. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 117:537-597 [R. Butler/R. Butler]
12547ETE C.-C. Young. 1948. On two new saurischians from Lufeng, China. Bulletin of the Geological Society of China 28(1-2):78-90 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
43938 C.-C. Young. 1951. The Lufeng saurischian fauna in China. Palaeontologia Sinica, New Series C 13:1-96 [R. Butler/R. Butler/M. Carrano]
84525 Z.-C. Zhang, T. Wang, and H.-L. You. 2023. A new specimen of Sinosaurus triassicus (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Early Jurassic of Lufeng, Yunnan, China. Historical Biology [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]