Luanchan, general (Cretaceous of China)

Also known as Funiusaurus type locality, Horizon 10

Where: Henan, China (33.8° N, 111.8° E: paleocoordinates 31.9° N, 102.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Qiupa Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Housed at Henan Geological Museum

Primary reference: L. Xu, X. Wu, J. Lu, S. Jia, J. Zhang, H. Pu, and X. Zhang. 2014. A new lizard (Lepidosauria: Squamata) from the Upper Cretaceous of Henan, China. Acta Geologica Sinica 88:1041-1050 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 166883: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Jonathan Tennant on 03.03.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Squamata - Polyglyphanodontidae
Funiusaurus luanchuanensis n. gen. n. sp. Xu et al. 2014 squamates
HGM 41HIII-0106, incomplete skull and mandible