Where: Henan, China (34.1° N, 112.6° E: paleocoordinates 37.1° N, 112.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Haoling Formation, Aptian to Aptian (125.0 - 100.5 Ma)

• "upper series"

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•Previously considered part of "Mangchuan" Formation;

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•The first sauropod specimens found from Liudian Town of

•Ruyang County established that the dinosaur-bearing

•deposits were definitively Cretaceous (late Early Cretac-

•eous) (Lu ̈ et al. 2006; Xu et al. 2012)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; massive, brown, red, muddy siltstone and gray, green, sandy shale

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected in 2007

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ), mechanical,

Primary reference: J. Lü, L. Xu, H. Pu, S. Jia, Y. Azuma, H. Chang, and J. Zhang. 2014. Paleogeographical significance of carcharodontosaurid teeth from the late Early Cretaceous of Ruyang, Henan Province of central China. Historical Biology 28(1-2):8-13 [E. Dunne/E. Tasimov]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 117983: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 29.09.2011

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