Yangpo, Ordos (SCDP) (Cretaceous to of China)

Also known as Yangpucie, Yang-Paul

Where: Nei Mongol, China (39.1° N, 110.0° E: paleocoordinates 40.5° N, 111.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Ejinhoro Formation, Valanginian to Valanginian (139.8 - 100.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; green, yellow siltstone and lithified, red sandstone

• "greeinsh-yellow siltstones intercalated with reddish, locally chaotically bedded, ledge-forming sandstones"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Reposited in the IVPP

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: D. A. Russell and X.-J. Zhao. 1996. New psittacosaur occurrences in Inner Mongolia. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 33(4):637-648 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 46905: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 26.01.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Pterosauria -
Pterosauria indet.
 Saurischia -
cf. Chiayusaurus sp.
cf. Chiayusaurus sp. Bohlin 1953 sauropod
 Ornithischia -
Psittacosaurus neimongoliensis n. sp., Wuerhosaurus ordosensis n. sp.1
Psittacosaurus neimongoliensis n. sp. Russell and Zhao 1996 ceratopsian
IVPP 12-0888-2
Wuerhosaurus ordosensis n. sp.1 Dong 1994 ornithischian
IVPP V6877-V6878
 Ornithischia - Stegosauridae
Wuerhosaurus homheni2
Wuerhosaurus homheni2 Dong 1973 ornithischian
IVPP V6879 (orig. part of W. ordosensis)
1Dong 1994; 2Maidment et al. 2008