Yanjiagou, Xuanhua (Jurassic to of China)

Where: Hebei, China (40.3° N, 115.6° E: paleocoordinates 41.3° N, 117.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Tuchengzi Formation, Late/Upper Kimmeridgian to Late/Upper Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 132.9 Ma)

• orig. Houcheng Fm.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Zhao et al. in 1970s, 2003; reposited in the IVPP

Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),

Primary reference: X. Zhao, Z. Cheng, X. Xu and P. J. Makovicky. 2006. A new ceratopsian from the Upper Jurassic Houcheng Formation of Hebei, China. Acta Geologica Sinica 80(4):467-473 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 91320: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 14.09.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Chaoyangsauridae
Xuanhuaceratops niei n. gen. n. sp.
Xuanhuaceratops niei n. gen. n. sp. Zhao et al. 2006 ceratopsian
IVPP 12722, V14527-29