Kugou Quarry, Zhucheng (Cretaceous of China)

Where: Shandong, China (36.0° N, 119.4° E: paleocoordinates 36.2° N, 110.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; fine-grained, pebbly, green sandstone

• "quarry sediments [were] dominated by debris flow, braided channel and floodplain deposits." (Hone et al., 2014)
• "The lower bonebed is the main exposed fossiliferous unit, and both the lower and upper beds are debris flow deposits composed of pebble-bearing fine sandstone." (Hone et al., 2014)

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 2006-2008

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ), mechanical,

Primary reference: X. Zhao, D. Li, G. Han, H. Zhao, F. Liu, L. Li, and X. Fang. 2007. Zuchengosaurus maximus from Shandong Province. Acta Geoscientia Sinica 28(2):111-122 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 91473: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 29.09.2009, edited by Richard Butler and Graeme Lloyd

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Leptoceratopsidae
Zhuchengceratops inexpectus n. gen. n. sp.3, Ischioceratops zhuchengensis n. gen. n. sp.1
Zhuchengceratops inexpectus n. gen. n. sp.3 Xu et al. 2010 leptoceratopsid
Ischioceratops zhuchengensis n. gen. n. sp.1 He et al. 2015 leptoceratopsid
ZCDM V0016, an incomplete, partially articulated specimen comprising the entire sacrum, a few ossified tendons, both halves of the pelvis, the anteriormost 15 caudal vertebrae in an articulated series, and the right femur, tibia and fibula.
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
"Zhuchengosaurus maximus n. gen. n. sp." = Shantungosaurus giganteus
"Zhuchengosaurus maximus n. gen. n. sp." = Shantungosaurus giganteus Hu 1973 hadrosaurine
 Theropoda - Caenagnathidae
Anomalipes zhaoi n. gen. n. sp.4
Anomalipes zhaoi n. gen. n. sp.4 Yu et al. 2018 maniraptoran
ZCDM V0020
 Theropoda - Tyrannosauridae
Tyrannosauridae indet.2
Tyrannosauridae indet.2 Osborn 1906 tyrannosaurid
One tooth, one small femur, and one small third metatarsal
 Crocodylia -
Crocodylia indet.2
Crocodylia indet.2 Owen 1842 crocodilian
osteoderm
 Testudinata -
Testudinata indet.2
Testudinata indet.2 Oppel 1811 turtle
parts of a plastron
1He et al. 2015; 2Hone et al. 2014; 3Xu et al. 2010; 4Yu et al. 2018