Where: Xinjiang, China (44.8° N, 90.1° E: paleocoordinates 42.8° N, 100.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Member (Shishugou Formation), Oxfordian (163.5 - 157.3 Ma)

• upper part of formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 2002; reposited in the IVPP

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: C. Jia, C. A. Forster, X. Xu and J. M. Clark. 2007. The first stegosaur (Dinosauria, Ornithischia) from the Upper Jurassic Shishugou Formation of Xinjiang, China. Acta Geologica Sinica 81(3):351-356 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 91319: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 14.09.2009

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