Where: Xinjiang, China (45.2° N, 88.9° E: paleocoordinates 46.8° N, 91.3° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Middle Member (Shishugou Formation), Oxfordian (163.5 - 157.3 Ma)
• "The specimen is from 35 m below the T-1 marker tuff, which had been dated as
•161.2 6 0.2 Ma. Recalibration of the age of the Fish Canyon sanidine monitor mineral suggests that the age of the T-1 marker tuff should be adjusted 0.6% older. Thus, we regard its age as 162.2 plus/minus 0.2 Ma" (Andres et al 2014)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: alluvial fan; mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected in 2001-2006; reposited in the IVPP
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ),
• Collected from a 30 cm2 area separated from all other fossils by at least 10 m distance (Andres et al 2014)
Primary reference: B. Andres, J. M. Clark, and X. Xu. 2010. A new rhamphorhynchid pterosaur from the Upper Jurassic of Xinjiang, China, and the phylogenetic relationships of basal pterosaurs. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30(1):163-187 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 93870: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 05.02.2010, edited by Jonathan Tennant
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Kryptodrakon progenitor n. gen. n. sp.
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Sericipterus wucaiwanensis n. gen. n. sp.
Sericipterus wucaiwanensis n. gen. n. sp. Andres et al. 2010 pterosaur IVPP V14725, partial skeleton
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