Lashuyuan, Wujing (Cretaceous of China)

Also known as Wuching, Lashuhyuan, Nanhsiung

Where: Guangdong, China (25.2° N, 114.6° E: paleocoordinates 25.1° N, 108.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Yuanpu Formation (Nanxiong Group), Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; mudstone and siltstone

• purple mudstones and siltstones

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected in 1962–1963; reposited in the IVPP

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: C.-C. Young. 1965. [Fossil eggs from Nanshiung, Kwangtung and Kanchou, Kiangsi]. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 9(2):141-170 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 71863: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 14.05.2007

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
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Oolithes nanhsiungensis
Oolithes nanhsiungensis Young 1965 reptile
IVPP V.2789; 2 eggs + 41 fragments
 Testudines - Nanhsiungchelyidae
Nanhsiungchelys wuchingensis n. gen. n. sp.
Nanhsiungchelys wuchingensis n. gen. n. sp. Yeh 1966 turtle
IVPP V.3106 (holotype skull and partial skeleton = Field No. 6225)