SCDP site 100, Bayan Mandahu (Cretaceous of China)

Also known as Sino-Canadian Dinosaur Project

Where: Nei Mongol, China (41.8° N, 106.7° E: paleocoordinates 39.6° N, 96.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Bayan Mandahu Formation, Campanian (83.6 - 72.1 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: eolian; red sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1990; reposited in the IVPP

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: V. M. Arbour and P. J. Currie. 2016. Systematics, phylogeny and palaeobiogeography of the ankylosaurid dinosaurs. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 14(5):385-444 [G. Lloyd/G. Lloyd/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 220055: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 03.05.2021

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Ankylosauridae
Pinacosaurus grangeri Gilmore 1933 ankylosaurid
IVPP V16853, skull and cervical half rings; IVPP V16283, partial skull