Qinglongtou reservoir (Cretaceous of China)

Also known as Chongqing, Fangshan

Where: Beijing, China (39.8° N, 116.1° E: paleocoordinates 44.7° N, 109.5° E)

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lushangfen Formation, Late/Upper Albian (105.3 - 99.6 Ma)

• middle of formation; above and below plant- and insect-bearing beds

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine delta front; lenticular, yellow, conglomeratic sandstone

• "the delta front facies of a lakeshore"
• "yellow, thick-bedded gravel sandstone, which lies at the bottom of a sequence of red-brown clastic rocks….The bed consists of different-sized snad-gravel lenses."

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by S.-G. Tian & W.-l. Wang in 1993

Collection methods: salvage, quarrying,

Primary reference: S.-G. Tian. 1994. The first dinosaurian fossil of Beijing area discovered. Chinese Science Bulletin 39(12):1054-1056 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 166078: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 03.02.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Saurischia -
? Sauropoda indet.
? Sauropoda indet. Marsh 1878 sauropod
rib fragment