Hsikou, Chinkangkou, Laiyang (Cretaceous of China)

Also known as Jingangkou, Chingkangkou, Chingkankou, Locality 1

Where: Shandong, China (36.9° N, 120.7° E: paleocoordinates 37.3° N, 111.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Jingangkou Formation (Wangshi Group), Campanian (83.6 - 72.1 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by C.-C. Young, J. Zhang in 1951, 2010; reposited in the IVPP

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

• 7 x 5 x 4 m excavation

Primary reference: C.-C. Young. 1958. The dinosaurian remains of Laiyang, Shantung. Palaeontologia Sinica, New Series C, Whole Number 42(16):1-138 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 55461: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 26.10.2005, edited by Evangelos Vlachos

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Emydoolithus laiyangensis n. gen. n. sp.2
egg
Vertebrata indet. Lamarck 1801
IVPP V.828, 833, 832
Reptilia
 Testudinata - Pleurosternidae
? Glyptops sp.1 Marsh 1890 turtle
IVPP V734, costal plate (original reference Chow 1954)
 Ornithischia -
Tanius chingkankouensis n. sp. Young 1958 ornithopod
IVPP V.724
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
Hadrosauridae indet. Cope 1869 hadrosaurid
IVPP V.830
Lambeosaurinae indet. Parks 1923 lambeosaurine
IVPP V.829
Tsintaosaurus sp. Young 1958 lambeosaurine
IVPP V.831
Tsintaosaurus spinorhinus n. gen. n. sp. Young 1958 lambeosaurine
IVPP V.725, K39
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet. theropod
IVPP K87
cf. Szechuanosaurus campi Young 1942 theropod
IVPP V.575-761, 764-766