New Eosauropterygian found in Eastern Yunnan, China
Wednesday, June 1, 2011 - 13:30
in Paleontology & Archaeology
The marine Triassic deposits in southwestern China have yielded numerous vertebrate fossils (ichthyosaurians, sauropterygians, thalattosaurians, and fishes). A new eosauropterygian, Diandongosaurus acutidentatus gen. et sp. nov., a complete skeleton with the skull articulated, was found from the Upper Member of Guanling Formation (middle Anisian, Middle Triassic) of Luoping County, Yunnan Province, southwestern China, as reported in the journal of Vertebrata PalAsiatic 2011(2) by Drs. SHANG Qing-Hua, LI Chun, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and WU Xiao-Chun, Canadian Museum of Nature Ottawa.