Where: Yunnan, China (25.2° N, 102.1° E: paleocoordinates 33.3° N, 106.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Zhangjiawa Member (Lufeng Formation), Sinemurian (196.5 - 189.6 Ma)

• 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.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by C.-C. Young; reposited in the IVPP

Primary reference: C.-C. Young. 1947. On Lufengosaurus magnus Young (sp. nov.) and additional finds of Lufengosaurus huenei Young. Palaeontologia Sinica, New Series C, Whole Series No. 132 12:1-53 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 71802: authorized by Matt Carrano, entered by Matt Carrano on 10.05.2007

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