Also known as Baiyinosaurus type
Where: Gansu, China (36.7° N, 104.8° E: paleocoordinates 39.3° N, 108.8° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Straw-yellow Sandstone Member (Wangjiashan Formation), Late/Upper Bathonian (167.7 - 164.7 Ma)
• "Based on its megafossil plants and palynoflora, as well as the lacustrine invertebrate assemblage of the overlying Oil Shale Member, including conchostracans, charophytes, and bivalves, the Straw-yellow Sandstone Member of the Wangjiashan Formation is considered to be late Bathonian in age" (Li et al. 2024). Fossil from upper part of member.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lacustrine deltaic; yellow sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by IVPG in 2017
Primary reference: N. Li, S. C. R. Maidment, D. Li, H. You, and G. Peng. 2024. A new stegosaur (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) from the Middle Jurassic of Gansu Province, China. Scientific Reports 14(1):1–14more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 235625: authorized by Emma Dunne, entered by Emma Dunne on 19.07.2024
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Baiyinosaurus baojiensis n. gen. n. sp.
Baiyinosaurus baojiensis n. gen. n. sp. Li et al. 2024 ornithischian Holotype IVPG-D021. A partial skeleton comprising a partial cranium, one cervical vertebra, seven dorsal vertebrae and one caudal vertebra.
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