Heichengzi, Beipiao (Cretaceous to of China)

Where: Liaoning, China (42.1° N, 121.0° E: paleocoordinates 44.8° N, 122.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Yixian Formation (Jehol Group), Late/Upper Barremian to Late/Upper Barremian (130.0 - 122.5 Ma)

• Early Cretaceous (Aptian)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the IVPP

Primary reference: S.-X. Jiang, X.-L. Wang, X. Meng and X. Cheng. 2014. A new boreopterid pterosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of western Liaoning, China, with a reassessment of the phylogenetic relationships of the Boreopteridae. Journal of Paleontology 88(4):823-828 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 165516: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 20.01.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Pterosauria - Boreopteridae
Boreopterus giganticus n. sp. Jiang et al. 2014 pterosaur