Also known as Gate Locality, Gate area

Where: Nei Mongol, China (41.7° N, 106.7° E: paleocoordinates 39.6° N, 96.2° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Wulansuhai Formation, Campanian (83.6 - 72.1 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; fine-grained, nodular, red sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: concretion

Collected in 2008; reposited in the IVPP

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• "a joint expedition team from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, the Longhao Institute of Geology and Paleontology, and the Bureau of Land and Resources of Bayannur, Inner Mongolia"

Primary reference: X. Xu, C. Sullivan, M. Pittman, J. N. Choiniere, D. Hone, P. Upchurch, Q. Tan, D. Xiao, L. Tan and F. Han. 2011. A monodactyl nonavian dinosaur and the complex evolution of the alvarezsauroid hand. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108(6):2338-2342 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 131829: authorized by Graeme Lloyd, entered by Graeme Lloyd on 30.07.2012, edited by David Nicholson and Patricia Holroyd

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