Luyuan, Shixing (BPV) (Cretaceous of China)

Also known as Shixinggia type

Where: Guangdong, China (25.0° N, 114.1° E: paleocoordinates 24.9° N, 108.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Pingling Formation, Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; coarse-grained, red sandstone

• "red colored coarse sandstones"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Li in 1995

Primary reference: J.-C. Lü, B. Zhang, and J. Li. 2003. A new oviraptorid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Shixin, Nanxiong Basin of Guangdong province, southern China. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 23(3, suppl.):73A [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 66798: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 16.10.2006

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Theropoda - Oviraptoridae
Shixinggia oblita n. gen. n. sp.
Shixinggia oblita n. gen. n. sp. Lü and Zhang 2005 maniraptoran
BPV-112