Also known as Pekinosaurus type site

Where: Montgomery County, North Carolina (35.2° N, 79.8° W: paleocoordinates 0.2° N, 17.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Pekin Formation (Chatham Group), Carnian (237.0 - 228.0 Ma)

• considered middle to late Carnian in age

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: mesofossils

Collected by P. Olsen; reposited in the YPM

Primary reference: P. M. Galton. 1983. The oldest ornithischian dinosaurs in North America from the Late Triassic of Nova Scotia, N.C., and Pa. Geological Society of America 18th Annual Meeting, Northeastern Section, Kiamesha Lake, NY. Abstracts with Programs 15(3):122 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 74205: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 30.07.2007

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