Also known as Elanodactylus type

Where: Liaoning, China (41.6° N, 120.9° E: paleocoordinates 44.3° N, 122.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Jianshangou Member (Yixian Formation), Late/Upper Barremian to Late/Upper Barremian (130.0 - 122.5 Ma)

• Bed 6 of Member 3 of the lower Yixian Formation.

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•"age of 129.7 ± 0.5 Ma for a basaltic lava from the bottom of the Yixian Formation and an age of 122.1 ± 0.3 Ma for a tuff from the lowermost part of the overlying Jiufotang Formation" (Chang et al. 2009)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collection methods: NGMC: National Geological Museum of China, Beijing

Primary reference: B. Andres and Q. Ji. 2008. A new pterosaur from the Liaoning Province of China, the phylogeny of the Pterodactyloidea, and convergence in their cervical vertebrae. Palaeontology 51(2):453-469 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 92908: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 07.12.2009

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