Haoling Village, Liudian Town (Cretaceous to of China)

Also known as Shijiagou

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

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• Originally assigned to the Mangchuan Formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; brown, red, silty mudstone

• Brownish red silty mudstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected in 2007

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

Primary reference: J. Lü, L. Xu, X. Jiang, S. Jia, M. Li, C. Yuan, X. Zhang and Q. Ji. 2009. A preliminary report on the new dinosaurian fauna from the Cretaceous of the Ruyang Basin, Henan Province of central China. Journal of the Paleontological Society of Korea 25(1):43-56 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 117986: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 29.09.2011, edited by Matthew Carrano

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Henan Geological Museum
Reptilia
 Theropoda - Carcharodontosauridae
Carcharodontosauridae indet. Stromer 1931 allosauroid
Teeth; 41HIII-0094, 0096
 Saurischia - Euhelopodidae
Xianshanosaurus shijiagouensis n. gen. n. sp. Lü et al. 2009 euhelopodid
KLR-07-62 - holotype (10 caudal vertebrae, one haemal arch, right coracoid, left femur and several thoracic ribs)