Auroraceratops "graveyard", Yujingzi Basin (Cretaceous of China)

Where: Gansu, China (40.5° N, 98.1° E: paleocoordinates 40.8° N, 94.5° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Red Beds Member (Zhonggou Formation), Early/Lower Albian (112.0 - 109.0 Ma)

• from near base of Early Cretaceous series in basin= Xinminpu

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: crevasse splay; paleosol/pedogenic, nodular, quartzose, red, calcareous siliciclastic sediments

• fluvial-overbank environment
• "red beds"; "red-bed paleosols with slickensides, carbonate nodules, and root mottling. The sediments are poorly sorted with abundant quartz and immature feldspar grains that are angular to subangular..."

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: surface (in situ), mechanical,

Primary reference: H.-L. You, E. M. Morschhauser, P. Dodson and D.-Q. Li. 2012. Auroraceratops sp. (Dinosauria: Neoceratopsia) from the Early Cretaceous of the Mazongshan area in northwestern China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 30(2):170-180 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 204659: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 16.09.2019

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Ornithischia -
Auroraceratops rugosus
Auroraceratops rugosus You et al. 2005 ceratopsian
GSGM-FV-00500, 00601