Chinchenia
| Chinchenia | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Superorder: | †Sauropterygia |
| Clade: | †Pistosauroidea |
| Genus: | †Chinchenia Young, 1965 |
| Type species | |
| †Chinchenia sungi Young, 1965
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Chinchenia is an
pistosauroid[1] known from the Middle Triassic (possibly Ladinian age) of Guizhou Province, southwestern China. It contains a single species, Chinchenia sungi.[2]
Discovery
Chinchenia is known from at least 4 extremely fragmentary individuals all preserved and collected together. The
tibiae, and a fibula fragment.[1] Other fragments of potentially coracoids, ilia, ischia, etc., were originally mentioned. A yet another fragmentary skeleton, IVPP V 4004, was mentioned by Young & Dong (1972). All specimens are housed at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology. The material was collected near the Cangxi Bridge at Shangpu, Tsanchichiao, 7 km west of Qingzhen of Guizhou Province. Although originally said to come from the first member of the Anisian Guangling Formation,[2] a Ladinian age was considered more likely by subsequent authors for the material.[1]
Etymology
Chinchenia was first described and named by
generic name is derived from Chinchen, an alternative spelling of the city of Qingzhen where the holotype was found.[2]
