Also known as Tanshan Gou

Where: Liaoning, China (41.6° N, 120.8° E: paleocoordinates 44.3° N, 122.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• "age of 129.7 ± 0.5 Ma for a basaltic lava from the bottom of the Yixian Formation and an age of 122.1 ± 0.3 Ma for a tuff from the lowermost part of the overlying Jiufotang Formation" (Chang et al. 2009)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression, soft parts

Collected in 2001-2005

Primary reference: J.-C. Lü. 2002. Soft tissue in an Early Cretaceous pterosaur from Liaoning Province, China. Memoir of the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum 1:19-28 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 79488: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 10.03.2008, edited by Richard Butler

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