Where: Yunnan, China (25.2° N, 102.1° E: paleocoordinates 33.7° N, 105.8° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Zhangjia'ao Member (Lufeng Formation), Sinemurian (199.3 - 190.8 Ma)
• The Lufeng Formation has been divided into lower dark/dull purple beds (= Shawan Member) and upper dark/deep red beds (= Zhangjiawa Member). Luo & Wu (1994: In the Shadow of the Dinosaurs, pp. 251–270) argue on the basis of vertebrate biostratigraphy for a probable Sinemurian age for the Zhangjiawa Member and a Hettangian age for the Shawan Member.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; siltstone and mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by M. N. Bien in 1938–1939; reposited in the IVPP
Primary reference: Z. Dong. 2001. Primitive armored dinosaur from the Lufeng Basin, China. Mesozoic Vertebrate Life, D. H. Tanke and K. Carpenter (eds.), Indiana University Press, Bloomington 237-242 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 93193: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 07.01.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Bienosaurus lufengensis n. gen. n. sp.
Bienosaurus lufengensis n. gen. n. sp. Dong 2001 ornithischian IVPP V 9612, nearly complete right lower jaw, other fragments
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