North Alashan desert, Ninghsia (Cretaceous of China)

Also known as Ningxia

Where: Ningxia, China (39.0° N, 106.0° E: paleocoordinates 37.7° N, 96.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Cretaceous (100.5 - 66.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; poorly lithified, green, red sandstone

• "a green and red soft sandstone"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Yuan in 1932

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ), mechanical,

Primary reference: C.-C. Young. 1935. On a new nodosaurid from Ninghsia. Palaeontologia Sinica, Series C 11(1):1-28 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 62323: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 18.07.2006

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia -
Psittacosaurus sp. Osborn 1923 ceratopsian
skull
 Ornithischia - Ankylosauridae
"Pinacosaurus ninghsiensis n. sp." = Pinacosaurus grangeri
"Pinacosaurus ninghsiensis n. sp." = Pinacosaurus grangeri Gilmore 1933 ankylosaurid
IVPP uncat.