Where: Hebei, China (37.5° N, 114.8° E: paleocoordinates 38.8° N, 117.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Tiaojishan Formation, Oxfordian (163.5 - 157.3 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression, soft parts

Reposited in the BMNH, IVPP

Collection methods: quarrying,

Primary reference: Z.-X. Luo, Q.-J. Meng, Q. Ji, Y.-G. Zhang, and A. I. Neander. 2015. Evolutionary development in basal mammaliaforms as revealed by a docodontan. Science 347(6223):760-764 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 167300: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Jonathan Tennant on 11.03.2015, edited by Mark Uhen and Philip Mannion

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