Where: Liaoning, China (40.2° N, 119.3° E: paleocoordinates 42.1° N, 123.2° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Tiaojishan Formation, Oxfordian (163.5 - 157.3 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Y.-G. Yang and W. Wang in 2008

Collection methods: mechanical

• The fossil was prepared using steel needle under a microscope

Primary reference: C.-F. Zhou. 2014. Cranial morphology of a Scaphognathus-like pterosaur, Jianchangnathus robustus, based on a new fossil from the Tiaojishan Formation of western Liaoning, China. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 34(3):597-605 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 156015: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Jonathan Tennant on 07.05.2014, edited by Graeme Lloyd

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