Also known as Pai-k'ou-ch'uan, Qitai, Chitai

Where: Xinjiang, China (45.3° N, 89.5° E: paleocoordinates 47.0° N, 91.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Member (Shishugou Formation), Oxfordian (163.5 - 157.3 Ma)

• also called the "Upper Shuihsikou series", and originally considered Lower Cretaceous

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; gray, green, yellow, argillaceous sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Yuan in 1930; reposited in the IVPP

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: C.-C. Young. 1937. A new dinosaurian from Sinkiang. Palaeontologia Sinica, New Series C, Whole Series No. 132 213:1-29 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 53658: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 13.09.2005

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