Xierhuqiao, Yixian (IVPP) (Cretaceous of China)

Where: Liaoning, China (41.5° N, 121.2° E: paleocoordinates 45.0° N, 121.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Jiufotang Formation (Jehol Group), Aptian (125.0 - 113.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; tuffaceous, gray mudstone and silty sandstone

• "tuffaceous lacustrine mudstones, silty sandstones and sandstones", also described as a "grayish shale" (probably refers to the mudstone)

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Reposited in the IVPP

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: Y. Wang, M. E. H. Jones, and S. E. Evans. 2007. A juvenile anuran from the Lower Cretaceous Jiufotang Formation, Liaoning, China. Cretaceous Research 28:235-244 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 73688: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 25.06.2007, edited by Graeme Lloyd

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Plantae indet. Haeckel 1866
"plants"
Insecta
  -
Insecta indet. Linnaeus 1758 insect
"insects"
Reptilia
 Theropoda - Caudipterygidae
Similicaudipteryx yixianensis n. gen. n. sp.1 He et al. 2008 maniraptoran
"caudipterid dinosaur"
Aves
 Yanornithiformes - Yanornithidae
Similiyanornis brevipectus n. gen. n. sp.2 Wang et al. 2020 bird
IVPP V13278
Reptilia
 Testudines -
Testudines indet. Batsch 1788 turtle
"turtles"
Amphibia
 Salientia -
Anura indet. frog
IVPP V13235 (part and counterpart of a partial skeleton)
Pisces
  -
"Pisces indet." = Osteichthyes
"Pisces indet." = Osteichthyes Huxley 1880 bony fish
"fish"