Where: Guangxi, China (24.6° N, 107.0° E: paleocoordinates 8.8° N, 97.1° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Luolou Formation, Olenekian (251.2 - 247.2 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: adpression
Collected in 1963; reposited in the IVPP
Primary reference: H. T. Liu. 1964. A new coelacanth from the marine Lower Triassic of N.W. Kwangsi, China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 8:211-214 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 140081: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 28.02.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Coelacanthimorpha | |
Sinocoelacanthus fengshanensis n. gen. n. sp.
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