Guanping, Qiupa Town (Cretaceous of China)

Where: Henan, China (33.8° N, 111.6° E: paleocoordinates 31.9° N, 102.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Qiupa Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; lithified siltstone and conglomeratic, calcareous mudstone

• shallow lacustrine and braided river delta facies
• brownish red thick-bedded siltstone, calcareous mudstone, interbedded with thin fine conglomerates, and parallel and cross laminations

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J.-C. Lü, L. Xu, H.-L. Chang, S.-H. Jia, J. M. Zhang, D.-S. Gao, Y.-Y. Zhang, C.-J. Zhang, and F. Ding. 2018. A new alvarezsaurid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Qiupa Formation of Luanchuan, Henan Province, central China. China Geology 1:28-35 [G. Lloyd/G. Lloyd/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 203216: authorized by Graeme Lloyd, entered by Graeme Lloyd on 06.08.2019, edited by Philip Mannion

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Theropoda - Alvarezsauridae
Alvarezsauridae indet.
Alvarezsauridae indet. Bonaparte 1991 coelurosaur
HGM L08-59
 Theropoda -
Qiupanykus zhangi n. gen. n. sp.
Qiupanykus zhangi n. gen. n. sp. Lü et al. 2018 coelurosaur
41HIII-0101