Also known as Rugosuchus nonganensis type locality
Where: Jilin, China (44.4° N, 124.6° E: paleocoordinates 45.9° N, 112.7° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Nenjiang Formation, Early/Lower Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• probably from the upper part of the formation; age based on Chen (2003)
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•Upper four members of Nenjiang formation yield an early Campanian age based on biostratigraphy (Wan et al. 2013) and U-Pb zircon analyses (Yu et al. 2019)
Environment/lithology: lacustrine; gray, green mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Petroleum Geological Survey of the Song-Liao Basin in 1958
Primary reference: X.-C. Wu, Z.-W. Cheng, and A. P. Russell. 2001. Cranial anatomy of a new crocodyliform (Archosauria: Crocodylomorpha) from the Lower Cretaceous of Song-Liao Plain, northeastern China. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 38:1653-1663 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 116154: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 06.09.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Rugosuchus nonganensis n. gen. n. sp.
Rugosuchus nonganensis n. gen. n. sp. Wu et al. 2001 crocodilian IGV 33 - holotype (majority of skull with mandible in tight occlusion) and referred material: IGV 31 (13 presacral vertebrae, two sacral vertebrae, 27 caudal vertebrae, many dorsal osteoderms and some ventral osteoderms, incomplete pelvic girdle, and some limb fragments) and IGV 32 (two sacral vertebrae attached to the first caudal vertebra, left ilium with proximal head of left femur, and some dorsal osteoderms)
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