Dongting Basin west, egg site (Cretaceous of China)

Where: Hunan, China (29.0° N, 111.5° E: paleocoordinates 28.2° N, 106.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Fenshui'ao Formation, Late/Upper Cretaceous (100.5 - 66.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; red siliciclastic sediments

• "red-beds"

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: D.-m. Zeng and J.-j. Zhang. 1979. On the dinosaurian eggs from the western Dongting Basin, Hunan. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 17(2):131-136 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 71664: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 03.05.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Deuteropoda
  -
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod
Reptilia
  - Phaceloolithidae
Phaceloolithus hunenansis n. gen. n. sp. dinosaur
 Theropoda - Elongatoolithidae
Elongatoolithus sp. Zhao 1975 theropod
Elongatoolithus magnus n. sp. Zeng and Zhang 1979 theropod
unclassified
  -
Charophyta indet. Migula 1890