Tando/Buldo Quarries (Cretaceous of South Korea)

Where: Gyeonggi-do, South Korea (37.2° N, 126.7° E: paleocoordinates 43.5° N, 123.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Tando beds Formation, Albian (113.0 - 100.5 Ma)

• "it is believed that the source rock of the block containing the specimen was originally from the lower part of the Tando beds" "Although we regard these deposits as deserving formational status, they are referred to here as the Tando beds, pending a full description"

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; fine-grained sandstone and fine-grained siltstone

• "The basin is filled mainly with clastic sediments, which consists of predominantly purple, fine-grained sandstones and siltstones, and thin sandstones with thick conglomeratic sandstones in the lower part, and well-bedded tuffaceous rocks and cherty mudstones in the upper part"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 2008

• found "by a public official of Hwaseong City in 2008." Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources, Vertebrate Paleontology, Daejeon, collection

Primary reference: Y.-N. Lee, M. J. Ryan, and Y. Kobayashi. 2010. The first ceratopsian dinosaur from South Korea. Naturwissenschaften [M. Carrano/M. Oreska]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 103988: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Oreska on 04.02.2011

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Leptoceratopsidae
Koreaceratops hwaseongensis n. gen. n. sp.
Koreaceratops hwaseongensis n. gen. n. sp. Lee et al. 2010 leptoceratopsid
KIGAM VP 200801, nearly complete tail, both ischia, partial distal hind limbs and feet