Also known as Shantungosuchus chuhsienensis type locality

Where: Shandong, China (36.2° N, 118.1° E: paleocoordinates 37.3° N, 120.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Mengyin Formation, Berriasian to Berriasian (145.0 - 132.9 Ma)

• Recent zircon dating has dated the Mengyin Formation to the Berriasian-Valanginian (Xu & Li, 2015)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; gray, green sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: C.-C. Young. 1961. On a new crocodile from Chuhsien, E. Shantung. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 5(1):6-10 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 118214: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 09.10.2011

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