Also known as Huaxiazhoulong type locality

Where: Jiangxi, China (27.5° N, 116.7° E: paleocoordinates 28.2° N, 110.6° E)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Tangbian Formation (Guifeng Group), Campanian (83.6 - 72.1 Ma)

• This set of strata is classified locally as Tangbian Formation, which belongs to Guifeng Group (Liu 1997; Xie 2001; Wu et al. 2002; Xi et al. 2021; Zeng et al. 2023).

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; red mudstone and sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

• Huaxiazhoulong shouwen (holotype: JPM-N000) is a partial postcranial skeleton, which consists of nine dorsal vertebrae, a possible sacral vertebra, seventeen caudal vertebrae, two pieces of co-ossified tail handle fragments and two major osteoderms, twenty-seven ribs, left scapulocoracoid, incomplete right scapulocoracoid, sternum, both humeri, ulnae

•and radii, three metacarpals, both ilia, ischia, femora and tibiae, four metatarsals and three isolated postcranial osteoderms.

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ),

• The specimen is housed in the collection of Jiangxi Provincial Museum, Nanchang, Jiangxi Province.

Primary reference: Z. Zhu, J. Wu, Y. You, Y. Jia, C. Chen, X. Yao, W. Zheng and X. Xu. 2024. A new ankylosaurid dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of Jiangxi Province, southern China. Historical Biology 1-17more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 237063: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Franco Aspromonte on 14.11.2024

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