100 m north of Shiziyan Road, Datangkeng (Cretaceous to of China)

Also known as Xingfu

Where: Jiangxi, China (25.8° N, 114.9° E: paleocoordinates 30.2° N, 112.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Zhoutian Formation (Ganzhou Group), Cenomanian to Cenomanian (100.5 - 89.8 Ma)

• upper part of the Zhoutian Formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; red sandstone

• dark red sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Jiangxi Geological Survey and Exploration Institute and the Jiangxi Geological Museum in 2021

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ),

Primary reference: F. Han, L. Yang, F. Lou, C. Sullivan, X. Xu, W. Qiu, H. Liu, J. Yu, R. Wu, Y. Ke, M. Xu, J. Huban, and P. Lu. 2024. A new titanosaurian sauropod, Gandititan cavocaudatus gen. et sp. nov., from the Late Cretaceous of southern China. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 22(1):2293038 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 233182: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 18.01.2024

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Saurischia -
Gandititan cavocaudatus n. gen. n. sp.
Gandititan cavocaudatus n. gen. n. sp. Han et al. 2024 sauropod
JXGM-F-V - holotype