Also known as type locality of Shansisaurus

Where: Shanxi, China (37.4° N, 110.9° E: paleocoordinates 31.5° N, 89.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Shiqianfeng (Shihtienfeng) Formation, Lopingian (259.0 - 252.3 Ma)

• "Shiqianfeng Formation" (Lee, 1997). No further details given.

•Note: The name "Shiqianfeng" appears to be identical to "Shihtienfeng", the latter being more commonly used in paleontological literature for the Upper Permian red beds of the Ordos Basin succession.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: CAGS = Geological Survey of China

Primary reference: Z.-W. Cheng. 1980. [Vertebrate Fossils]. Mesozoic Stratigraphy and Paleontology of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Basin 115-170 [R. Butler/R. Butler] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 92909: authorized by Johannes Mueller, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 07.12.2009

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