The Gate, Bayan Mandahu (Cretaceous of China)

Also known as Wulatelong gobiensis type locality

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)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: concretion

Collected by Xu et al expeditions in 2009; reposited in the IVPP

Primary reference: X. Xu, Q.-W. Tan, S. Wang, C. Sullivan, D. W. E. Hone, F.-L. Han, Q.-Y. Ma, L. Tan, and D. Xiao. 2013. A new oviraptorid from the Upper Cretaceous of Nei Mongol, China, and its stratigraphic implications. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 51(2):85-101 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 145095: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Jonathan Tennant on 26.05.2013

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Theropoda - Oviraptoridae
Wulatelong gobiensis n. gen. n. sp.
Wulatelong gobiensis n. gen. n. sp. Xu et al. 2013 maniraptoran
IVPP V 18409, n articulated skeleton preserving much of the cranium and postcranial skeleton, including 11 dorsal vertebrae, 16 caudal vertebrae, much of both the right and left scapulocoracoids, a partial sternum, a partial left humerus, much of the left manus, a nearly complete right pelvic girdle, and the right hindlimb
 Theropoda - Alvarezsauridae
Linhenykus monodactylus Xu et al. 2011 coelurosaur
IVPP V 18190, a partial distal left pes, including a complete pedal digit I, the distal ends of mts (metatarsals) II, III, and IV, and pedal phalanges II−1, II−2, partial II−3, III−1, and IV−1 to 3