Also known as Chilantai, Jilantai
Where: Nei Mongol, China (40.3° N, 105.9° E: paleocoordinates 41.5° N, 97.2° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Ulansuhai Formation (Dashuigou Group), Turonian (93.9 - 89.8 Ma)
• = Suhongtu Fm. Faunal assignment to Aptian-Albian, but dating of underlying beds suggests maximum age is Turonian
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by SSPE in 1959-1960; reposited in the IVPP
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,
Primary reference: S.-Y. Hu. 1964. [Carnosaurian remains from Alashan, Inner Mongolia]. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 8(1):42-63 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 66924: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 24.10.2006, edited by Jonathan Tennant and David Nicholson
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Aspideretes maortuensis n. sp." = Kuhnemys maortuensis2, "Aspideretes alashanensis n. sp." = Kuhnemys maortuensis1
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"Chilantaisaurus maortuensis n. sp." = Shaochilong maortuensis
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Gobisaurus domoculus n. gen. n. sp.3
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