southern gully, Chinkangkou, Laiyang (Cretaceous of China)

Also known as Jingangkou, Chingkangkou, Chingkankou

Where: Shandong, China (36.9° N, 120.7° E: paleocoordinates 37.3° N, 111.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Jingangkou Formation (Wangshi Group), Campanian (83.6 - 72.1 Ma)

• upper part of series

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; gray, green siliciclastic sediments

• "grayish green" beds

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by C.-C. Young in 1952

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• later collection by Tientsin Natural History Museum

Primary reference: C.-C. Young. 1954. Fossil reptilian eggs from Laiyang, Shantung, China. Scientia Sinica 3(4):505-522 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 24757: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 19.08.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Ovaloolithidae
"Oolithes laminadermus" = Ovaloolithus laminadermus Young 1954 ornithopod
IVPP V786
Ovaloolithus chinkangkouensis Chao and Chiang 1974 ornithopod
TNHM 40.087, egg
 Theropoda - Elongatoolithidae
"Oolithes elongatus" = Elongatoolithus elongatus, "Oolithes elongatus" = Elongatoolithus elongatus
"Oolithes elongatus" = Elongatoolithus elongatus Young 1954 theropod
"Oolithes elongatus" = Elongatoolithus elongatus Young 1954 theropod
IVPP V787