Near Hejiaxin village (Cretaceous to of China)

Also known as Yizhoubatrachus (frog) type locality

Where: Liaoning, China (41.6° N, 121.1° E: paleocoordinates 44.3° N, 122.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Dawangzhangzi Member (Yixian Formation), Late/Upper Barremian to Late/Upper Barremian (130.0 - 122.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; shale

• Volcanic shales

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the IVPP

• Also Zhejiang Museum of Natural History collection

Primary reference: S. E. Evans and Y. Wang. 2005. The Early Cretaceous lizard Dalinghosaurus from China. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 50(4):725-742 [R. Benson/R. Benson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 117415: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 19.09.2011

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Taxonomic list

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Amphibia
 Salientia -
"Yizhoubatrachus macilentus n. gen. n. sp." = Liaobatrachus macilentus
"Yizhoubatrachus macilentus n. gen. n. sp." = Liaobatrachus macilentus Gao and Chen 2004 frog
ZMNH M8621 - holotype (nearly complete skeleton with some cranial bones slightly displaced, and metacarpals and phalanges of left forelimb preserved as imprint); referred specimen: IVPP V12510 (a nearly complete skeleton)
Reptilia
 Squamata -
Dalinghosaurus longidigitus
Dalinghosaurus longidigitus Ji 1998 squamates
IVPP V13281 (skeleton including skull)