Tongwei (PROXY) (Cretaceous of China)

Where: Gansu, China (35.2° N, 105.2° E: paleocoordinates 33.2° N, 95.6° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)

• supposedly equivalent to Subashi Fm.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1975–1976

Primary reference: J. Xie. 1980. [Discovery of dinosaur fossils in Tongwei county, Gansu province]. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 18(2):178 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 178686: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 11.05.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
Hadrosauridae indet. Cope 1869 hadrosaurid
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet. Marsh 1881 theropod
 Saurischia -
Lithostrotia indet. Wilson and Upchurch 2003 sauropod