southeast of Ch'ing-Shan, Laiyang (Cretaceous to of China)

Also known as Uppsala/Geol. Survey China, Chingshan

Where: Shandong, China (36.8° N, 120.6° E: paleocoordinates 41.1° N, 119.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Doushan Formation (Qingshan Group), Aptian to Aptian (125.0 - 100.5 Ma)

• = Chingshan, Ch'ing-shan; lower part of formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• "green and yellowish sandstones, marls, silstones, and shales" - fossil in matrix of "purple/red-brown mudstone"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by T'an in 1923

• spring 1923

Primary reference: H. C. T'an. 1923. New research on the Mesozoic and early Tertiary geology in Shantung. Geological Survey of China Bulletin 5:95-135 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 62328: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 18.07.2006, edited by Philip Mannion

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Saurischia -
Titanosauria indet. Bonaparte and Coria 1993 sauropod