Lujiatun village 3, Yixian (ZMNH) (Cretaceous to of China)

Where: Liaoning, China (41.6° N, 121.0° E: paleocoordinates 44.3° N, 122.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lujiatun Member (Yixian Formation), Late/Upper Barremian to Late/Upper Barremian (130.0 - 122.5 Ma)

• lowest part of formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression, soft parts

Collection methods: quarrying,

Primary reference: C.-F. Zhou, K.-Q. Gao, R. C. Fox and S.-H. Chen. 2006. A new species of Psittacosaurus (Dinosauria: Ceratopsia) from the Early Cretaceous Yixian Formation, Liaoning, China. Palaeoworld 15(1):100-114 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 75511: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 15.10.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia -
Psittacosaurus lujiatunensis n. sp. Zhou et al. 2006 ceratopsian
ZMNH M8137, 8138; PKUP V1050, V1051, V1053, V1054