Hsiachiayin, Chingkankou, Laiyang (PMRE) (Cretaceous of China)

Where: Shandong, China (36.9° N, 120.7° E: paleocoordinates 37.3° N, 111.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Jingangkou Formation (Wangshi Group), Campanian (83.6 - 72.1 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with silica, replaced with phosphate

Collected by PMRE

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: C.-C. Young. 1965. [Fossil eggs from Nanshiung, Kwangtung and Kanchou, Kiangsi]. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 9(2):141-170 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 71900: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 15.05.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Ovaloolithidae
"Oolithes chinkangkouensis" = Ovaloolithus chinkangkouensis
"Oolithes chinkangkouensis" = Ovaloolithus chinkangkouensis Chao and Chiang 1974 ornithopod
PMRE 11; nest w/10 eggs