microvertebrate locality, 16 km northeast of Erenhot: Middle Campanian - Late/Upper Campanian, China
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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unclassified
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Osteichthyes indet.
(Huxley 1880)
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Reptilia
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Testudinata indet.
(Oppel 1811)
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Reptilia
- Ornithomimidae
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Ornithomimidae indet.
Marsh 1890
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Reptilia
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Tyrannosauroidea indet.
Walker 1964
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Reptilia
- Caenagnathidae
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Caenagnathasia sp.
Currie et al. 1994
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| IVPP V 20377, fused dentaries | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Dromaeosauridae
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Dromaeosauridae indet.
Colbert and Russell 1969
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Reptilia
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Hadrosauroidea indet.
(Huene 1954)
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Geography
| Country: | China | State/province: | Nei Mongol |
| Coordinates: | 43.7° North, 112.1° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 42.9° North, 100.8° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Campanian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 7 |
| Key time interval: | Middle Campanian - Late/Upper Campanian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 83.60000 - 72.10000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Iren Dabasu |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | poorly lithified sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "poorly consolidated sandy sediment" | |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Lagerst�tten type: | concentrate |
| Size of fossils: | mesofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
| Fragmentation: | occasional |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | bulk,field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
| Museum repositories: | IVPP |
Metadata
| Database number: | 175225 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | P. Mannion | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2015-12-07 09:40:22 | Last modified: | 2020-09-01 08:16:40 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2015-12-07 09:40:22 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 57254. | X. Yao, X.-L. Wang, C. Sullivan, S. Wang, T. A. Stidham and X. Xu. 2015. Caenagnathasia sp. (Theropoda: Oviraptorosauria) from the Iren Dabasu Formation (Upper Cretaceous: Campanian) of Erenhot, Nei Mongol, China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 53(4):291-298 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |