Pingfengshan (Jurassic of China)

Where: Xinjiang, China (45.1° N, 89.0° E: paleocoordinates 46.7° N, 91.3° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Shishugou Formation, Oxfordian (163.5 - 157.3 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; fine-grained, red siliciclastic sediments

• "lacustrine deposits"
• "fine-grained redbeds"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by SCDP in 1984-1989; reposited in the IVPP

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: D. A. Russell and Z. Zheng. 1990. The 1989 field season of the Dinosaur Project. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 28(4):322 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 46974: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 27.01.2005, edited by Jonathan Tennant

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Labyrinthodonta indet.
labyrinthodonts
Reptilia
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet. theropod
small theropod skeleton plus isolated claws & bones
 Ornithischia -
Ornithopoda indet. ornithopod
skeletal fragments of small ornithopods
 Saurischia -
 Loricata - Goniopholididae
Sunosuchus junggarensis n. sp.3 Wu et al. 1996 crocodilian
crocodile
 Testudines - Xinjiangchelyidae
Xinjiangchelys sp.2 Yeh 1986 turtle
turtles
Xinjiangchelys radiplicatoides1 Brinkman et al. 2013 turtle
IVPP V9539
Xinjiangchelys junggarensis1 Yeh 1986 turtle
turtles
Xinjiangchelys chowi1 Matzke et al. 2005 turtle
IVPP V18105, incomplete carapace, preserving the left half and much of the median area, exposed in dorsal view, plus associated postcranial elements, including an incomplete cervical vertebra
Amphibia
 Temnospondyli -
Temnospondyli indet.2 tetrapod
labyrinthodonts