Tungkou, Chiangchunting, Laiyang (Cretaceous of China)

Also known as Chiangchiungting

Where: Shandong, China (36.9° N, 120.7° E: paleocoordinates 37.3° N, 111.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Jingangkou Formation (Wangshi Group), Campanian (83.6 - 72.1 Ma)

• middle part of series

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; red claystone and sandstone

• red clay beds between sandstone bands

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by C.-C. Young in 1952; reposited in the IVPP

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: C.-C. Young. 1954. Fossil reptilian eggs from Laiyang, Shantung, China. Scientia Sinica 3(4):505-522 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 80113: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 04.04.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Spheroolithidae
"Oolithes irenensis n. sp." = Spheroolithus irenensis
"Oolithes irenensis n. sp." = Spheroolithus irenensis Chao and Chiang 1974 ornithopod
IVPP V733