Also known as Nanyangosaurus type, Neixiang

Where: Henan, China (33.5° N, 112.9° E: paleocoordinates 32.4° N, 104.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Majiacun Formation, Early/Lower Turonian to Early/Lower Turonian (93.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• Possibly Albian; also listed as "lower part of the Xiaguan Formation (equivalent of the Gaogou Fm., Xixia Basin)" and Sangping Formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; brown, red, silty, sandy mudstone and gray, sandy conglomerate

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collected in 1975-1994; reposited in the IVPP

Collection methods: surface (in situ), mechanical,

• Thousands of dinosaur eggs were also found and collected.

Primary reference: Z. Zhao. 1979. [Discovery of the dinosaurian eggs and footprint from Neixiang county, Henan province]. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 17(4):304-309 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 55688: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 02.11.2005, edited by Matthew Carrano

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