Lanping dinosaur site (Cretaceous of China)
Where: Yunnan, China (26.5° N, 99.5° E: paleocoordinates 8.5° N, 89.3° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Jingxing Formation, Late/Upper Cretaceous (100.5 - 66.0 Ma)
• also spelled "Chingshong"
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; brown, red mudstone and gray, green siltstone
• "brackish-water sediments"
• "purple or brownish-red mudstones, gray-greenish siltstones, and sandstones, intercalated with variegated thin beds of mudstones."
Size class: mesofossils
Primary reference: Z. Dong. 1992. Dinosaurian Faunas of China. China Ocean Press, Beijing 1-188 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 49795: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 26.04.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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unclassified | |
Lanpingosuchus magnus n. gen. n. sp.
Lanpingosuchus magnus n. gen. n. sp. | |
Reptilia | |
Tyrannosaurus lanpingensis n. sp.
Tyrannosaurus lanpingensis n. sp. Yeh 1975 coelurosaur |