Jenhui (Triassic of China)

Where: Guizhou, China (27.9° N, 106.4° E: paleocoordinates 16.9° N, 94.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Triassic (247.2 - 237.0 Ma)

• lower middle Triassic

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gray limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: Y. Chung-Chien. 1960. New localities of sauropterigians in China. Vertebrata Palasiatica 4(2):82-86 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/E. Leckey]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 37606: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 18.03.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ichthyosauria - Mixosauridae
"Mixosaurus maotaiensis n. sp." = Barracudasaurus maotaiensis
"Mixosaurus maotaiensis n. sp." = Barracudasaurus maotaiensis Young 1965 ichthyosaur
two coracoids, isolated vertebrae, ribs, a damaged humerus and a scapula