Cruralispennia-type locality (Cretaceous of China)

Also known as Sichakou Basin

Where: Hebei, China (41.0° N, 117.5° E: paleocoordinates 42.9° N, 119.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Sichakou Member (Huajiying Formation), Hauterivian (132.9 - 129.4 Ma)

• Protopteryx-horizon

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: soft parts

Primary reference: M. Wang, J. K. O'Connor, Y.-H. Pan and Z.-H. Zhou. 2017. A bizarre Early Cretaceous enantiornithine bird with unique crural feathers and an ornithuromorph plough-shaped pygostyle. Nature Communications 8: 14141 [G. Lloyd/G. Lloyd]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 194615: authorized by Graeme Lloyd, entered by Graeme Lloyd on 23.06.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Aves
 Enantiornithes -
Orienantius ritteri n. gen. n. sp., Cruralispennia multidonta n. gen. n. sp.
Orienantius ritteri n. gen. n. sp. Liu et al. 2019 bird
BMNHC Ph 1154a/b, BMNHC Ph 1156a/b
Cruralispennia multidonta n. gen. n. sp. Wang et al. 2017 bird
IVPP 21711