Shixia Village (Cretaceous of China)

Also known as Jinguofortis-type locality

Where: Hebei, China (42.0° N, 117.7° E: paleocoordinates 44.2° N, 119.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Dabeigou Formation, Barremian (129.4 - 125.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 2017

Primary reference: M. Wang, T. A. Stidham, and Z. Zhou. 2018. A new clade of basal Early Cretaceous pygostylian birds and developmental plasticity of the avian shoulder girdle. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115(42):10708-10713 [G. Lloyd/G. Lloyd/B. Gee]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 197953: authorized by Graeme Lloyd, entered by Graeme Lloyd on 03.12.2018

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Taxonomic list

Aves
 Pygostylia - Jinguofortisidae
Jinguofortis perplexus n. gen. n. sp.
Jinguofortis perplexus n. gen. n. sp. Wang et al. 2018 bird
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