Tsanmakou (upper), Tzoyun (IVPP) (Cretaceous of China)

Where: Shanxi, China (40.0° N, 112.4° E: paleocoordinates 39.9° N, 102.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• higher than "allosaurid"-bearing strata at same localiy

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the IVPP

Primary reference: C.-C. Young. 1958. The first record of dinosaurian remains from Shansi. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 2(4):231-236 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 71842: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 14.05.2007

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
Hadrosauridae indet. Cope 1869 hadrosaurid
IVPP V.970; comparable with Hypacrosaurus and similar to Bactrosaurus