Guanmengou No. 4 bonebed (Cretaceous to of China)

Also known as Yangjiagou

Where: Gansu, China (35.8° N, 103.8° E: paleocoordinates 34.8° N, 103.6° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: 5 Formation (Hekou Group), Barremian to Barremian (129.4 - 113.0 Ma)

• Upper Hekou Group

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; siltstone and lithified, gray, red, sandy mudstone

• "offshore-shallow lacustrine deposits"
• "The fossil egg comes from the first layer of siltstone from the top of the section...red brown mudstone with interbedded sage green silty mudstone."; "Dark red sandy mudstone with somewhat grayish mottling"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by Wang, Huang, et al. in 2008

Primary reference: J.-T. Yang, H.-L. You, D.-Q. Li and D.-L. Kong. 2013. [First discovery of polacanthine ankylosaur dinosaur in Asia]. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 51(4):265-277 [G. Lloyd/G. Lloyd/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 155994: authorized by Graeme Lloyd, entered by Graeme Lloyd on 06.05.2014, edited by Matthew Carrano

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Saurischia - Euhelopodidae
Yongjinglong datangi n. gen. n. sp.1
Yongjinglong datangi n. gen. n. sp.1 Li et al. 2014 euhelopodid
GSGM ZH(08)-04 - holotype (three teeth, eight presacral vertebrae including one caudal cervical vertebra, four cranial dorsal vertebrae, and three articulated middle dorsal vertebrae, one fragmentary dorsal rib and left scapulocoracoid as well as a right ulna and radius)
 Ornithischia - Nodosauridae
Taohelong jinchengensis n. gen. n. sp.
Taohelong jinchengensis n. gen. n. sp. Yang et al. 2013 ankylosaur
GSDM 00021
  - Polyclonoolithidae
Polyclonoolithus yangjiagouensis n. gen. n. sp.2 Xie et al. 2016 dinosaur
ZMNH M1849, egg