Ban Khok Sanam, Phu Kradung (Jurassic to of Thailand)

Where: Kalasin, Thailand (16.9° N, 101.7° E: paleocoordinates 14.0° N, 108.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Phu Kradung Formation (Khorat Group), Tithonian to Tithonian (152.1 - 139.8 Ma)

• biostratigraphic estimate as well as based on age of underlying beds; lower part of formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; gray sandstone

• "grey sandstone"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by Buffetaut et al. in 1996-1997

Primary reference: E. Buffetaut, V. Suteethorn, H. Tong, Y. Chaimanee, and S. Khansubha. 1997. New dinosaur discoveries in the Jurassic and Cretaceous of northeastern Thailand. Proceedings of the International Conference on Stratigraphy and Tectonic Evolution of Southeast Asia and the South Pacific, 19-24 August 1997, Bangkok 177-187 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 48872: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 01.04.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Ptycholepiformes - Ptycholepididae
cf. Ptycholepis sp.1 Agassiz 1832 ray-finned fish
TF 8023
Actinopteri
 Lepisosteiformes -
cf. Lepidotes sp.1 Agassiz 1832 gar
TF 8025
Amphibia
 Temnospondyli -
Temnospondyli indet. tetrapod
vertebra
Reptilia
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet. Marsh 1881 theropod
tooth
 Saurischia - Euhelopodidae
Euhelopodidae indet. euhelopodid
teeth
 Neornithischia -
Neornithischia indet.2 Cooper 1985 ornithischian
WNM-Ks-001, an isolated tooth
 Ornithischia - Stegosauridae
Siamodracon altispinus n. gen. n. sp.3
Siamodracon altispinus n. gen. n. sp.3 Ulansky 2014 ornithischian
KPS 2-1 [= SM2011-1-001], dorsal vertebra
 Crocodylia -
Crocodylia indet. Owen 1842 crocodilian
 Testudines -
Testudines indet. Batsch 1788 turtle
Osteichthyes
 Dipnoi -
Ferganoceratodus cf. martini1 Cavin et al. 2007 lungfish
tooth plate