Shengshuigou, Shaping village (Cretaceous to of China)

Also known as Liudian

Where: Henan, China (34.1° N, 112.6° E: paleocoordinates 37.1° N, 112.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Haoling Formation, Aptian to Aptian (125.0 - 100.5 Ma)

• Early late Cretaceous "from a site close to the new fossil locality"; "upper series"

•Previously assigned to the Mangchuan Formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

• Nearly complete posterior dorsal vertebra, nearly complete posterior cervical vertebra, possible incomplete posterior cervical vertebra, posterior cervical rib, anterior dorsal rib, complete right tibia, proximal portion of right femur

Collection methods: Henan Geological Museum collection

Primary reference: J.-c. Lü, L. Xu, S.-h. Jia, X.-l. Zhang, J.-m. Zhang, L.-l. Yang, H.-l. You and Q. Ji. 2009. A new gigantic sauropod dinosaur from the Cretaceous of Ruyang, Henan, China. Geological Bulletin of China 28(1):1-10 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 95795: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 28.04.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Saurischia - Euhelopodidae
Ruyangosaurus giganteus n. gen. n. sp.
Ruyangosaurus giganteus n. gen. n. sp. Lü et al. 2009 euhelopodid
41HIII-0002