Where: Liaoning, China (40.6° N, 119.6° E: paleocoordinates 43.2° N, 121.6° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Yixian Formation (Jehol Group), Late/Upper Barremian to Late/Upper Barremian (130.0 - 122.5 Ma)
• Yixian Formation, Early Cretaceous
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: soft parts
Collection methods: HG B0 (Paleontological Center, Bohai University, Jinzhou City, China)
Primary reference: G. Han, L. M. Chiappe, S. Ji, M. Habib, A. H. Turner, A. Chinsamy, and L. Han. 2014. A new raptorial dinosaur with exceptionally long feathering provides insights into dromaeosaurid flight performance. Nature Communications 5(4382):1-9 [R. Benson/R. Benson]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 158243: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 17.07.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Changyuraptor yangi n. gen. n. sp.
Changyuraptor yangi n. gen. n. sp. Han et al. 2014 maniraptoran HG B016 (Paleontological Center, Bohai University, Jinzhou City, China) (Fig. 1; Supplementary Fig. 1), a complete articulated specimen with extensive feathering. HG B016 constitutes an adult individual based on skeletochronology and it is split in two slabs
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