Dashi site, Nanning (Cretaceous of China)

Also known as Qingxiusaurus type site, Nalong

Where: Guangxi, China (22.8° N, 108.3° E: paleocoordinates 21.4° N, 106.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Cretaceous (100.5 - 66.0 Ma)

• "Upper Cretaceous red beds"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; red, blue, muddy siltstone

• "purple-red muddy siltstone"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1991

Primary reference: J.-Y. Mo, C.-L. Huang, Z.-R. Zhao, W. Wang, and X. Xu. 2008. A new titanosaur (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) from the Late Cretaceous of Guangxi, China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 46(2):147-156 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 83956: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 11.09.2008

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Saurischia - Saltasauridae
Qingxiusaurus youjiangensis n. gen. n. sp. Mo et al. 2008 saltasaurid
NHMG 8499
 Ornithischia -
Nanningosaurus dashiensis n. gen. n. sp. Mo et al. 2007 ornithopod
NHMG 8142, 8143