No. 3 high school of Ganxian (Cretaceous of China)

Also known as Third High School of Ganxian County

Where: Jiangxi, China (25.9° N, 115.0° E: paleocoordinates 25.9° N, 108.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Hekou Formation, Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: salvage, quarrying,

• DYM: Dongyang Museum, Dongyang City, Zhejiang Province

Primary reference: J. Lü, R. Chen, S. L. Brusatte, Y. Zhu, and C. Shen. 2016. A Late Cretaceous diversification of Asian oviraptorid dinosaurs: evidence from a new species preserved in an unusual posture. Scientific Reports 6:35780:1-12 [R. Butler/R. Butler/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 182609: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 10.11.2016, edited by Philip Mannion

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Theropoda - Oviraptoridae
Tongtianlong limosus n. gen. n. sp.
Tongtianlong limosus n. gen. n. sp. Lü et al. 2016 maniraptoran
DYM-2013-8, complete skeleton
Mammalia
 Multituberculata -
Erythrobaatar ganensis Jin et al. 2022 multituberculate
GM30496 - paratype