Also known as Chiangchiungting, Tsotan, Tsaotan, Zhaotuan
Where: Shandong, China (36.9° N, 120.7° E: paleocoordinates 39.5° N, 112.4° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Jiangjunding Formation (Wangshi Group), Coniacian to Coniacian (89.8 - 83.6 Ma)
• middle part of series
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; red claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by C.-C. Young in 1951–1952, 1954; reposited in the IVPP
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
Primary reference: M. M. Chow. 1951. Notes on the Late Cretaceous dinosaurian remains and the fossil eggs from Laiyang Shantung. Bulletin of the Geological Society of China 31(1–4):89-95 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 79742: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 21.03.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Oolithes spheroides n. sp." = Spheroolithus spheroides2, "Oolithes chiangchiungtingensis n. sp." = Spheroolithus spheroides1
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"Oolithes megadermus n. sp." = Multifissoolithus megadermus3
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