Shuangmiao, Beipiao (Cretaceous of China)

Where: Liaoning, China (41.8° N, 120.8° E: paleocoordinates 47.5° N, 113.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Sunjiawan Formation, Late/Upper Albian (105.3 - 99.6 Ma)

• orig. "early Late Cretaceous"

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1999-2002; reposited in the IVPP

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: H. You, Q. Ji, J. Li and Y. Li. 2003. A new hadrosauroid dinosaur from the mid-Cretaceous of Liaoning, China. Acta Geologica Sinica 77(2):148-154 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 64018: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 29.08.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Ankylosauridae
Crichtonpelta benxiensis1 Lü et al. 2007 ankylosaurid
G20090034, skull missing the rostrum
 Ornithischia -
Shuangmiaosaurus gilmorei n. gen. n. sp. You et al. 2003 ornithopod
LPM 0165, 0166
 Saurischia -
Borealosaurus wimani n. gen. n. sp.2
Borealosaurus wimani n. gen. n. sp.2 You et al. 2004 sauropod
LMV 0167, 0169, 0170
 Theropoda -