Lingyuan City (Cretaceous to of China)

Where: Liaoning, China (41.2° N, 119.4° E: paleocoordinates 43.8° N, 121.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; shale and mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression, soft parts

Collected by Hao

Primary reference: C. Gao, L. M. Chiappe, Q. Meng, J. K. O'Connor, X. Wang, X. Cheng, and J. Liu. 2008. A new basal lineage of Early Cretaceous birds from China and its implications on the evolution of the avian tail. Palaeontology 51(4):775-791 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 82783: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 01.08.2008, edited by Jonathan Tennant

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Theropoda -
Zhongornis haoae n. gen. n. sp.
Zhongornis haoae n. gen. n. sp. Gao et al. 2008 maniraptoran
DNHM D2455/6
Aves
 Enantiornithes - Pengornithidae
Parapengornis eurycaudatus1 Hu et al. 2015 bird
IVPP V 18632, a nearly complete articulated skeleton of a subadult individual with integument, lacking parts of the cervical and thoracic vertebral series, the distal half of the right forelimb and the distal half of the left hindlimb.
 Enantiornithes - Longipterygidae
Shanweiniao cooperorum n. gen. n. sp.2
Shanweiniao cooperorum n. gen. n. sp.2 O'Connor et al. 2009 fan-tail bird
DNHM D1878