Qiupa, Luanchuan Basin (Cretaceous of China)

Where: Henan, China (34.0° N, 111.7° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 29.2° N, 106.3° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Qiupa Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• "late Late Cretaceous"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; lithified, silty mudstone and red conglomerate

• "shore-shallow lacustrine and meandering river"
• matrix of figured specimen clearly lithified; "rhythmic deposition of purple medium-bedded conglomerate and thin-bedded silty mudstone"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 2006

Collection methods: mechanical,

• Shandong Tianyu Natural Museum collection

Primary reference: J.-c. Lü, S.-a. Ji, and Z.-m. Dong. 2008. An Upper Cretaceous lizard with a lower temporal arcade. Naturwissenschaften 95(7):663-669 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 84996: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 19.11.2008, edited by Matthew Carrano, Roger Benson and Philip Mannion

Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)

Taxonomic list

• other taxa not discussed
Reptilia
 Testudines -
Testudines indet.4 Batsch 1788 turtle
 Squamata - Polyglyphanodontidae
Tianyusaurus zhengi n. gen. n. sp.
Tianyusaurus zhengi n. gen. n. sp. Lü et al. 2008 squamates
 Dinosauria -
Dinosauria indet.4 Owen 1842 dinosaur
eggshells
 Ornithischia - Ankylosauridae
Ankylosauridae indet.4 Brown 1908 ankylosaurid
 Ornithischia -
Ornithopoda indet.4 Marsh 1881 ornithopod
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet.1 Marsh 1881 theropod
"teeth of a huge carnivorous dinosaur"
Yuornis junchangi n. gen. n. sp.3 Xu et al. 2021 avialan
 Theropoda - Troodontidae
Troodontidae indet.4 Gilmore 1924 maniraptoran
 Theropoda - Dromaeosauridae
Luanchuanraptor henanensis n. gen. n. sp.4 Lü et al. 2007 maniraptoran
 Theropoda - Oviraptoridae
Yulong mini n. gen. n. sp.2
Yulong mini n. gen. n. sp.2 Lü et al. 2013 maniraptoran
 Theropoda - Ornithomimidae
Qiupalong henanensis n. gen. n. sp.4
Qiupalong henanensis n. gen. n. sp.4 Xu et al. 2011 ornithomimid
HGM 41HIII-0106
Mammalia
 Mammalia -