Hungtouyeh, Laiyang (Cretaceous of China)

Also known as Hungtuyeh

Where: Shandong, China (36.9° N, 120.7° E: paleocoordinates 37.3° N, 111.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Jingangkou Formation (Wangshi Group), Campanian (83.6 - 72.1 Ma)

• "middle" Wangshi Series

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; red claystone and sandstone

• "red clay...between two massive bands of sandstones"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Liu, Wang, Young in 1952

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• collected by Peking and Tientsin museums

Primary reference: C.-C. Young. 1954. Fossil reptilian eggs from Laiyang, Shantung, China. Scientia Sinica 3(4):505-522 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 71903: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 15.05.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Spheroolithidae
"Oolithes irenensis" = Spheroolithus irenensis, "Oolithes chiangchiungtingensis" = Spheroolithus spheroides
"Oolithes irenensis" = Spheroolithus irenensis Chao and Chiang 1974 ornithopod
TNHM 40.095, 40.116
"Oolithes chiangchiungtingensis" = Spheroolithus spheroides Young 1954 ornithopod
IVPP V731