Also known as Ningjiagou, Uppsala/Geol. Survey China; Euhelopus zdanskyi type, Ning Chia Kou
Where: Shandong, China (35.9° N, 118.0° E: paleocoordinates 36.9° N, 120.2° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Mengyin Formation, Berriasian to Berriasian (145.0 - 132.9 Ma)
• Fossils from "lower and middle Mengyin Series". Full age range ascribed to the Mengyin Formation is Tithonian to Aptian (but see Wilson and Upchurch 2009).
•Recent zircon dating has dated the Mengyin Formation to the Berriasian-Valanginian (Xu & Li, 2015)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; green, yellow sandstone and green, yellow siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Metrens, T'an, Andersson, & Zdansky; Young & Bien in 1913–1923
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ), mechanical,
• Original discovery about 1913 by Father Metrens (Catholic priest), site rediscovered 1922 by Andersson and T'an, then excavated 1923 by Zdansky.
Primary reference: H. C. T'an. 1923. New research on the Mesozoic and early Tertiary geology in Shantung. Geological Survey of China Bulletin 5:95-135 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 47070: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 07.02.2005, edited by Philip Mannion
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Sinochelys applanata n. gen. n. sp." = Sinochelys applanata5, "Scutemys tecta" = Sinochelys applanata6
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Stegosauria indet.1 Marsh 1877 ornithischian PMU 24724 (formerly PMU R275), PMU 24040/1 and PMU 24040/2: three dorsal vertebrae. PMU 24723 (formerly PMU R276): an isolated dermal spine
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"Helopus zdanskyi n. gen. n. sp." = Euhelopus zdanskyi4
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Actinopteri | |
Tanichthys ningjiagouensis n. gen. n. sp.2
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Lycoptera sp.6 Müller 1847 |