Also known as Orientognathus type locality

Where: Liaoning, China (41.2° N, 120.1° E: paleocoordinates 42.3° N, 122.2° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Second Member (Tuchengzi Formation), Berriasian (145.0 - 139.8 Ma)

• second member of the Upper Jurassic Tuchengzi Formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; tuffaceous, gray, green shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: The specimen was collected by a local farmer. One of the authors (JL) later visited the fossil locality, guided by the farmer. Because the specimen was not excavated by a technically accomplished collector, it was heavily damaged during excavation. During the visit to the site, JL and the collector found a fragment of black bone from a pterosaur, which is identical to the present specimen in color. Thus, we are confident that the locality the farmer pinpointed is the locality where the specimen described here was collected. The specimen comes from gray-green tuffaceous shales (Fig. 2), which based on lithology are most likely belonging to the second member of the Upper Jurassic Tuchengzi Formation (Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources of Liaoning Province, 1989).

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•Henan Geological Museum, Zhengzhou, Henan Province.

Primary reference: J. Lu, H. Pu, X. Wei, H. Chang, and M. Kundrat. 2015. A new rhamphorhynchid pterosaur (Pterosauria) from Jurassic deposits of Liaoning Province, China. Zootaxa 3911(1):119-129 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 165439: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Jonathan Tennant on 19.01.2015

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