Shuangmao village, Xingling township (Jehol Biota) (Cretaceous of China)

Also known as Shuanghe Village

Where: Jilin, China (42.4° N, 125.9° E: paleocoordinates 46.6° N, 125.8° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Hengtongshan Formation, Aptian (125.0 - 113.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; gray, green sandstone

• Most fossils were collected from a thick layer of grayish green sandstones from the section that represents a fluviolacustrine deposit

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, charcoalification

Collection methods: Specimens are housed in the town hall of Xingling, Meihekou City and the Research Center of Palaeontology and Stratigraphy, Jilin University, respectively.

Primary reference: W. Wu, C. Zhou, W. Sun and C. Sun. 2018. The First Vertebrate Assemblage Dominated by Fishes and Turtles of the Jehol Biota in Jilin Province, NE China. Acta Geologica Sinica 92(5):2028-2029 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 197339: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 05.11.2018, edited by Philip Mannion

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Ginkgoopsida
 Ginkgoales - Ginkgoaceae
Baiera sp. Braun 1843
Actinopteri
 Leptolepidiformes - Leptolepididae
Lycoptera davidi Sauvage 1880
Reptilia
 Dinosauria -
 Testudines - Sinemydidae
Ordosemys liaoxiensis Ji 1995 turtle
new species; Three well-preserved turtle specimens, possibly representing a new species of Ordosemys, show characters of a circular shell, parallel-sided costals 3, relatively wide vertebrals, and two medial plastral fenestrae
Osteichthyes
 Halecomorphi - Sinamiidae
Sinamia sp. ray-finned fish
Gastropoda
 Architaenioglossa - Viviparidae
Viviparus sp. Montfort 1810 snail