Also known as Wucaiwan area, Junggar Basin

Where: Xinjiang, China (45.2° N, 88.9° E: paleocoordinates 45.1° N, 90.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Shengjinkou Formation (Tugulu Group), Valanginian (139.8 - 132.9 Ma)

• Upper part of Tugulu group

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the IVPP

Primary reference: X. Xu, J. Choiniere, Q.-W. Tan, R. B. J. Benson, J. Clark, C. Sullivan, Q. Zhao, F.-L. Han, Q.-Y. Ma, Y.-M. He, S. Wang, H. Xing, and L. Tan. 2018. Two early Cretaceous fossils document transitional stages in alvarezsaurian dinosaur evolution. Current Biology 28:2853-2860 [G. Lloyd/G. Lloyd]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 203178: authorized by Graeme Lloyd, entered by Graeme Lloyd on 05.08.2019

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