Where: Henan, China (33.3° N, 111.5° E: paleocoordinates 32.5° N, 103.8° E)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Unit 2 Member (Majiacun Formation), Santonian (86.3 - 83.6 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: mechanical,
• XMDFEC, Xixia Museum of Dinosaur Fossil Eggs of China, Xixia, China
Primary reference: H. Xing, D. -Y. Wang, F.-L. Han, C. Sullivan, Q.-Y. Ma, Y.-M. He, D. W. E. Hone, R.-H. Yan, F.-M. Du and X. Xu. 2014. A new basal hadrosauroid dinosaur (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) with transitional features from the Late Cretaceous of Henan Province, China. PLoS One 9(6): e98821 [R. Benson/R. Benson/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 157097: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 06.06.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Zhanghenglong yangchengensis n. gen. n. sp.
Zhanghenglong yangchengensis n. gen. n. sp. Xing et al. 2014 ornithopod XMDFEC V0013, incomplete, disarticulated cranium, incl. nearly complete R maxilla, partial R jugal & dentary; XMDFEC V0014, partial, disarticulated postcranial skeleton, incl. 5 anterior-middle dorsal vertebrae (some lack dorsal portion of neural spine), fragments of dorsal ribs, and nearly complete R scapula & ulna
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