Wuerho, IVPP hadrosaur (Cretaceous to of China)

Also known as Urhe, Urho

Where: Xinjiang, China (46.1° N, 85.7° E: paleocoordinates 44.6° N, 77.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Ailikehu Formation (Tugulu Group), Cenomanian to Cenomanian (100.5 - 86.3 Ma)

• = Ilike Fm.; "mid-Cretaceous" in age

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; gray, white conglomerate and brown, yellow sandstone

• "white-gray conglomerates and brownish yellow sandstones"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1964; reposited in the IVPP

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: Z. Dong. 1973. [Cretaceous stratigraphy of Wuerho district, Dsungar Basin]. Reports of Paleontological Expedition to Sinkiang (II): Pterosaurian Fauna from Wuerho, Sinkiang. Memoirs of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Academia Sinica 11:1-7 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 49802: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 26.04.2005

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
Hadrosauridae indet. Cope 1869 hadrosaurid