Also known as Wulumqi

Where: Xinjiang, China (43.6° N, 87.3° E: paleocoordinates 42.1° N, 88.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lianmuqin Formation (Tugulu Group), Valanginian to Valanginian (139.8 - 100.5 Ma)

• lower part of Lianmuxin Formation (?Aptian–Albian)

•Upper Lianmuxin Formation (?Aptian-Albian)

•[ = Lianmuqin Fm.]

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; mudstone and siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Sino-German Cooperation Project on the Mesozoic Stratigraphy and Palaeontology of the Junggar Basin in 2001

• SGP, Sino-German Project collection, currently housed at the Institut und Museum fuer Geologie und Palaeontologie, University of Tuebingen, Germany. The collection remains the property of the People’s Republic of China and will be transferred to a public Chinese collection after the scientific studies are finished. The final repository will be announced in an internationally accessible journal.

Primary reference: M. W. Maisch, A. T. Matzke, and G. Sun. 2004. A new dsungaripteroid pterosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of the southern Junggar Basin, north-west China. Cretaceous Research 25:625-634 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 89993: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 25.06.2009, edited by Philip Mannion

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