Hsiachiayin, Chingkankou, Laiyang (PMRE): Campanian, China
collected by PMRE
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Ovaloolithidae
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Oolithes spheroides
Young 1954
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1 individual | |||||||||
| PMRE 11; nest w/10 eggs | ||||||||||
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= Oolithes chinkangkouensis
Chao and Chiang 1974
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Chao and Chiang 1974 | |||||||||
| recombined as Ovaloolithus chinkangkouensis | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | China | State/province: | Shandong | County: | Laiyang |
| Coordinates: | 36.9° North, 120.7° East (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 37.3° North, 111.0° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Altitude: | 0 meters | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Campanian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 7 |
| Key time interval: | Campanian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 83.60000 - 72.10000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Wangshi | Formation: | Jingangkou |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,replaced with silica,replaced with phosphate |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Spatial orientation: | life position |
| Associated major elements: | all |
| Fragmentation: | frequent |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
| Spatial resolution: | autochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ),field collection,survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Collectors: | PMRE |
Metadata
| Database number: | 71900 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2007-05-15 06:44:36 | Last modified: | 2009-09-29 12:02:47 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2007-05-15 06:44:36 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 24288. | ETE | C.-C. Young. 1965. [Fossil eggs from Nanshiung, Kwangtung and Kanchou, Kiangsi]. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 9(2):141-170 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 14221 | ETE | K. Carpenter and K. Alf. 1994. Global distribution of dinosaur eggs, nests, and babies. In K. Carpenter, K. F. Hirsch, and J. R. Horner (eds.), Dinosaur Eggs and Babies, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 13-30 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 24337 | ETE | T.-k. Chao and T.-k. Chiang. 1974. Microscopic studies on the dinosaurian egg-shells from Laiyang, Shanting province. Scientia Sinica 17(1):73-90 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 6944 | 5% 14660 | Y. Dauphin. 1994. Comparaison des microstructures et de la composition chimique de coquilles d'oeufs fossiles du Sud de la France, de quelques specimens d'Asie et d'oiseaux actuels. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 194(1):55-71 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/J. Alroy] |