SCDP Hangginqi psittacosaur site (Cretaceous to of China)

Where: Nei Mongol, China (39.7° N, 108.7° E: paleocoordinates 40.9° N, 109.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• 35 m sequence

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; red sandstone

• "rusty-red, southward-dipping, cross-bedded sandstones"

Size class: macrofossils

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 46929: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 26.01.2005

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia -
Psittacosaurus sp. Osborn 1923 ceratopsian