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 | |
Xuanhuaceratops niei n. gen. n. sp.
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