Where: Liaoning, China (40.7° N, 119.7° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 39.5° N, 131.1° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Jiufotang Formation (Jehol Group), Aptian (121.4 - 113.2 Ma)

• "part of, or laterally equivalent to, the Lower Cretaaceous Yixian Formation, but more data are needed to confirm this" (Hu et al. 2011)

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•Li et al. (2014) state that "Recent fieldwork confirmed the outcrops of fossil beds exposed in Lamadong Village mainly belong to the Jiufotang Formation (X. L. Wang, personal commun.)".

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; sandstone and mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression, soft parts

Collected by G. Chen

• collected by Mr. Guo Chen

Primary reference: D. Hu, L. Li, L. Hou and X. Xu. 2011. A new enantiornithine bird from the Lower Cretaceous of western Liaoning, China. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 31(1):154-161 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 105772: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 25.02.2011, edited by Roger Benson, Richard Butler, Graeme Lloyd, Matthew Clapham and Eren Tasimov

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