TBB2001, Wucaiwan (Jurassic of China)

Where: Xinjiang, China (45.2° N, 88.9° E: paleocoordinates 46.8° N, 91.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• 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: mire or swamp; tabular, bioturbated, tuffaceous, yellow, carbonaceous mudstone

• "from the middle of an approximately 2.0 meter thick tabular bed of finely laminated to massive, tan-coloured, tuffaceous mudstone. Small, horizontal to sub-vertical carbonaceous root traces and plant fragments are present. Fine laminations and horizontally-oriented roots indicate a paludal (wetlands) setting in which sediment accumulated over many years."

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 2002-2004; reposited in the IVPP

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: D. A. Eberth, X. Xu, and J. M. Clark. 2010. Dinosaur death pits from the Jurassic of China. Palaios 25:112-125 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 107804: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 16.04.2011

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Theropoda - Noasauridae
Limusaurus inextricabilis
Limusaurus inextricabilis Xu et al. 2009 ceratosaur