Also known as Chaoyangsaurus type
Where: Liaoning, China (42.9° N, 124.0° E: paleocoordinates 44.2° N, 126.3° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Tuchengzi Formation, Late/Upper Kimmeridgian to Late/Upper Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 132.9 Ma)
• possibly late Middle Jurassic based on conchostracans correlated with Bathonian non-marine conchostracans from northwest Scotland
•formation "attains a thickness of approximately 876-2,908 m."
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial; gray, blue mudstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,
Primary reference: Z. Dong. 1992. Dinosaurian Faunas of China. China Ocean Press, Beijing 1-188 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 10755: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 19.06.2001, edited by Philip Mannion
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia | |
Eusauropoda indet.1 Upchurch 1995 sauropod IVPP V 12744 (near complete left metacarpus, comprising two carpals, five metacarpals, and four phalanges, as well as the distal end of the left radius,)
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"Chaoyangosaurus liaosiensis n. gen. n. sp." = Chaoyangsaurus youngi
"Chaoyangosaurus liaosiensis n. gen. n. sp." = Chaoyangsaurus youngi Zhao et al. 1999 ceratopsian |