Qiketai, Turpan (Hudiesaurus type locality) (Jurassic to of China)

Where: Xinjiang, China (42.9° N, 90.2° E: paleocoordinates 42.2° N, 95.3° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Kalazha Formation, Late/Upper Kimmeridgian to Late/Upper Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 145.0 Ma)

• Lower part of the Kalazha Formation (Upper Jurassic: upper Kimmeridgian–Tithonian)

•(also referred to as the Karaza, Kalaza, or Hongshan Formation)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1993; reposited in the IVPP

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: Z. Dong. 1997. A gigantic sauropod (Hudiesaurus sinojapanorum gen. et sp. nov.) from the Turpan Basin, China. In Z. Dong (ed.), Sino-Japanese Silk Road Dinosaur Expedition. China Ocean Press, Beijing 102-110 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 45172: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 08.10.2004

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Saurischia - Mamenchisauridae
Hudiesaurus sinojapanorum n. gen. n. sp. Dong 1997 mamenchisaurid
IVPP V11120 - holotype (posterior cervical vertebra)