Sihedang, Lingyuan (Cretaceous of China)

Also known as Liuligou

Where: Liaoning, China (40.9° N, 119.5° E: paleocoordinates 44.0° N, 119.7° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: 3 Member (Jiufotang Formation), Aptian (125.0 - 113.0 Ma)

• Sihedang beds of the third member of the Jiufotang Formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; gray mudstone and gray, green shale

• dark-gray mudstones intersected with green-gray shales

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression, soft parts

Reposited in the IVPP

Primary reference: X. Wang, A. W. A. Kellner, S. Jiang and X. Cheng. 2012. New toothed reptile from Asia: close similarities between early Cretaceous pterosaur faunas from China and Brazil. Naturwissenschaften 99:249-257 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 135798: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 09.11.2012, edited by Matthew Carrano, Jonathan Tennant and Philip Mannion

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines - Sinemydidae
Jeholochelys lingyuanensis n. gen. n. sp.6 Shao et al. 2018 turtle
PMOL-AR00213 - holotype
 Theropoda - Dromaeosauridae
Zhongjianosaurus yangi n. gen. n. sp.9
Zhongjianosaurus yangi n. gen. n. sp.9 Xu and Qin 2017 maniraptoran
IVPP V 22775
Aves
 Confuciusornithiformes - Confuciusornithidae
Yangavis confucii n. gen. n. sp.8
Yangavis confucii n. gen. n. sp.8 Wang and Zhou 2018 bird
IVPP V18929
Reptilia
 Theropoda -
Changzuiornis ahgmi n. gen. n. sp.2, Gansus zheni n. sp.4, Dingavis longimaxilla n. gen. n. sp.5, Iteravis huchzermenyeri n. gen. n. sp.11, Monoenantiornis sihedangia n. gen. n. sp.1, Lingyuanosaurus sihedangensis n. gen. n. sp.10
Changzuiornis ahgmi n. gen. n. sp.2 Huang et al. 2018 avialan
AGB5840
Gansus zheni n. sp.4 Liu et al. 2014 avialan
BMNHC-Ph1342, BMNHC-Ph1318, BMNHC-Ph1394
Dingavis longimaxilla n. gen. n. sp.5 O'Connor et al. 2016 avialan
IVPP V20284
Iteravis huchzermenyeri n. gen. n. sp.11 avialan
IVPP V18958, a nearly complete, articulated specimen with feather impressions preserved in a single slab in dorsolateral view
Monoenantiornis sihedangia n. gen. n. sp.1 Hu and O'Connor 2017 avialan
IVPP V20289
Lingyuanosaurus sihedangensis n. gen. n. sp.10 Yao et al. 2019 coelurosaur
IVPP V 23589
 Pterosauria -
Pterosauria indet.3 pterosaur
PMOL AP00022
Ikrandraco avatar7 Wang et al. 2014 pterosaur
IVPP V18406
Guidraco venator n. gen. n. sp. Wang et al. 2012 pterosaur
IVPP V17083, complete skull and cervical vertebrae