Qaggannur dinosaur site (Cretaceous of China)

Also known as Qagan Nor

Where: Nei Mongol, China (43.3° N, 113.0° E: paleocoordinates 45.7° N, 113.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Qagannur Formation, Early/Lower Cretaceous (145.0 - 100.5 Ma)

• younger than Guyang Fm.; = Chagannur Fm.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; gray, green, yellow sandstone and brown, red siltstone

• "gray and yellow-green sandstones, mudstones, and fine sandy conglomerates, intercalated with brownish red siltstones."

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: Z. Dong. 1992. Dinosaurian Faunas of China. China Ocean Press, Beijing 1-188 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 49798: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 26.04.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Ornithischia -
Stegosauria indet.
Stegosauria indet. ornithischian
 Saurischia -
Nurosaurus qaganensis n. gen. n. sp.
Nurosaurus qaganensis n. gen. n. sp. Dong 1992 sauropod