Also known as Huanansaurus type locality
Where: Jiangxi, China (25.8° N, 114.9° E: paleocoordinates 25.9° N, 109.4° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Nanxiong Formation, Campanian to Campanian (83.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified, red sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: construction site of the Ganzhou Railway Station
Primary reference: J. Lü, H. Pu, Y. Kobayashi, L. Xu, H. Chang, Y. Shang, D. Liu, Y.-N. Lee, M. Kundrát and C. Shen. 2015. A new oviraptorid dinosur (Dinosauria: Oviraptorosauria) from the Late Cretaceous of southern China and its paleobiogeographical implicationas. Scientific Reports 5(11490):1-15 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 171312: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Jonathan Tennant on 06.07.2015, edited by Graeme Lloyd
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Huanansaurus ganzhouensis n. gen. n. sp., Corythoraptor jacobsi n. gen. n. sp.
Huanansaurus ganzhouensis n. gen. n. sp. Lü et al. 2015 coelurosaur Partial skeleton with a nearly complete skull (HGM41HIII-0443); accessioned at the Henan Geological Museum, Zhengzhou, China
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