Sungkan (Cretaceous of China)

Where: Guizhou, China (28.6° N, 106.9° E: paleocoordinates 27.7° N, 112.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Cretaceous (145.0 - 100.5 Ma)

• found "about 150 meters abve the contact with the Jurassic beds" (unnamed), but age considered problematic in paper

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: trace

Collected by C.-C. Young in 1944

Collection methods: quarrying,

• includes two indeterminate bones as well

Primary reference: C.-C. Young. 1948. Notes on the occurrence of sauropod remains from N. Kweichow, China. Science Records 2(2):200-206 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 35284: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 24.11.2003

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Saurischia -
Pisces
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"Pisces indet." = Osteichthyes
"Pisces indet." = Osteichthyes Huxley 1880 bony fish
coprolite