PBDB Collection

Wuerho, IVPP site 64041 (Cretaceous to of China)

Where: Xinjiang, China (46.0° N, 85.8° E: paleocoordinates 45.0° N, 81.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lianmuqin Formation (Tugulu Group), Late/Upper Aptian to Late/Upper Aptian (122.5 - 100.5 Ma)

• lower part of formation

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; gray, sandy mudstone and gray, green sandstone

• "Tugulu Group deposition took place in and around a large inland lake that formed in the Junggur basin under a subtropical to tropical climate" (Lucas, 2001).

• "gray sandy mudstones and light green-gray sandstones"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected in 1964; reposited in the IVPP

Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ), mechanical,

Primary reference: Z. Dong. 1973. [Dinosaurs from Wuerho]. Reports of Paleontological Expedition to Sinkiang (II): Pterosaurian Fauna from Wuerho, Sinkiang. Memoirs of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Academia Sinica 11:45-52 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 49047: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 06.04.2005, edited by Roger Benson

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
Testudines - Xinjiangchelyidae	Sinemys wuerhoensis n. sp.² Sinemys wuerhoensis n. sp.² Yeh 1973 turtle Holotype (IVPP V.4704). Originally, a series of specimens in a slab (IVPP V.4074 and 4074.1–14) were reported (Yeh 1973) of these, only the holotype of Sinemys wuerhoensis was retained in the taxon (as Xinjiangchelys sp.) by Danilov & Parham (2007)
Testudines - Sinemydidae	Ordosemys brinkmania n. gen. n. sp.¹ Ordosemys brinkmania n. gen. n. sp.¹ Danilov and Parham 2007 turtle Holotype IVPP V4074.4, a shell in ventral aspect on a slab; and V4074.1, shell in ventral aspect; V4074.3, shell in dorsal aspect (partially visible on the other side); V4074.8 isolated skull; IVPP V4074.14 and V4074.15, poorly preserved shells that may be associated with skulls IVPP V4074.16 or V4074.18; IVPP V4074.16 and V4074.18, skulls in dorsal view; IVPP V4074.19, posterior part of shell in ventral view (partially visible on the other side)
Testudines -	cf. Pantrionychia indet.¹ cf. Pantrionychia indet.¹ Joyce et al. 2004 turtle IVPP V4074.17, a poorly preserved skull in dorsal aspect
Loricata - Protosuchidae	Edentosuchus tienshanensis³ Edentosuchus tienshanensis³ Young 1973 crocodilian
Pterosauria - Dsungaripteridae	Noripterus complicidens⁴, Dsungaripterus weii⁴ Noripterus complicidens⁴ Young 1973 pterosaur Dsungaripterus weii⁴ Young 1964 pterosaur
Theropoda -	Tugulusaurus faciles n. gen. n. sp., Phaedrolosaurus ilikensis n. gen. n. sp. Tugulusaurus faciles n. gen. n. sp. Dong 1973 coelurosaur Phaedrolosaurus ilikensis n. gen. n. sp. Dong 1973 tetanuran theropod
Ornithischia - Stegosauridae	Wuerhosaurus homheni Wuerhosaurus homheni Dong 1973 ornithischian
Saurischia - Camarasauridae	Camarasauridae indet. Camarasauridae indet. Cope 1877 camarasaurid
Saurischia -	cf. Asiatosaurus mongoliensis cf. Asiatosaurus mongoliensis Osborn 1924 sauropod

¹Danilov and Parham 2007; ²Rauhut and Xu 2005; ³Young 1973; ⁴Young 1973