Also known as Meipu, Xichuan Basin

Where: Hubei, China (33.0° N, 111.2° E: paleocoordinates 32.5° N, 103.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Majiacun Formation, Late/Upper Coniacian to Late/Upper Coniacian (89.3 - 83.5 Ma)

• from middle of formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; nodular, gray, red, muddy, calcareous siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1990s, 2011

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ), mechanical,

• Long Hao Institute of Geology and Paleontology

Primary reference: Q.-W. Tan, H. Xing, Y.-G. Hu, L. Tan, and X. Xing. 2015. New hadrosauroid material from the Upper Cretaceous Majiacun Formation of Hubei Province, central China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 53(3):245-264 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 27026: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 13.11.2002

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