Nanhuang #3 coal mine, Fuxin (Cretaceous to of China)

Also known as Fusin

Where: Liaoning, China (42.0° N, 121.7° E: paleocoordinates 46.5° N, 118.9° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Fuxin Formation (Jehol Group), Aptian to Aptian (125.0 - 100.5 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; coal and fine-grained, gray, argillaceous sandstone

Size class: mesofossils

Primary reference: R. Amiot, N. Kusuhashi, X. Xu and Y. Wang. 2010. Isolated dinosaur teeth from the Lower Cretaceous Shahai and Fuxin formations of northeastern China. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 39:347-358 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 97423: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 26.07.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines -
"Chelonia indet." = Testudines
"Chelonia indet." = Testudines Batsch 1788 turtle
 Ornithischia - Nodosauridae
? Nodosauridae indet. Marsh 1890 ankylosaur
IVPP V16746.1
 Ornithischia - Ankylosauridae
? Ankylosauridae indet. Brown 1908 ankylosaurid
IVPP V16745.1-3
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet. Marsh 1881 theropod
 Theropoda - Dromaeosauridae
Dromaeosauridae indet. Colbert and Russell 1969 maniraptoran
IVPP V16743.8-11
 Theropoda -
cf. Incisivosaurus sp. Xu et al. 2002 maniraptoran
IVPP V16742.2-3