Taiwan village (Cretaceous of China)

Also known as Tiantai, Fangshan

Where: Zhejiang, China (29.1° N, 120.8° E: paleocoordinates 36.7° N, 117.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• also listed as Chaochuan Fm.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 2005

Primary reference: M.-p. Qian, Z.-y. Zhang, Y. Jiang, Y.-g. Jiang, Y.-j. Zhang, R. Chen, and G.-f. Xing. 2012. [Cretaceous therizinosaurs in Zhejiang of eastern China]. Journal of Geology 36(4):337-348 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 175968: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 20.01.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Theropoda - Therizinosauridae
Tiantaisaurus sifengensis n. gen. n. sp. Qian et al. 2012 coelurosaur