Jiayin: Maastrichtian, China
collected by A. Kristofovich, M. Manakin, N. P. Stepanov, V. Arseniev, P. Godefroit 1902, 1914–1917, 1925, 1975, 1977–

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Testudines
Chelonia indet. (Latreille 1800)
Godefroit et al. 2000
synonym of Testudines
Reptilia - Testudines - Lindholmemydidae
Aspideretes planicostatus n. sp. Riabinin 1930
Riabinin 1931 1 specimen
recombined as Amuremys planicostata
CCMGE 12/3413
Reptilia - Tyrannosauridae
Theropoda indet. (Marsh 1881)
    = Albertosaurus periculosus n. sp. Riabinin 1930
Godefroit et al. 2000
synonym of Tarbosaurus bataar
Reptilia - Troodontidae
Troodon sp. Leidy 1856
Yu et al. 2022
DMJY V-815 - tooth; "Troodon tooth morphotype"
Reptilia
Ankylosauria indet. Osborn 1923
Godefroit et al. 2000
Reptilia - Hadrosauridae
Saurolophus krystofovici n. sp. Riabinin 1930
Rozhdestvensky 1973 1 specimen
nomen dubium belonging to Hadrosauridae
Lambeosaurinae indet. Parks 1923
Godefroit 2000 1 individual
CUST J-V1251-57
    = Charonosaurus jiayinensis n. gen., n. sp. Godefroit et al. 2000
Godefroit et al. 2000
Hadrosaurinae indet. Lambe 1918
Wu et al. 2010
Trachodontidae indet. Lydekker 1888
1 specimen
    = Trachodon amurense n. sp. Riabinin 1925
Godefroit et al. 2004
recombined as Mandschurosaurus amurensis
Reptilia - Crocodylia
Crocodylia indet. (Owen 1842)
Godefroit et al. 2000
Coniferales
Cupressinoxylon sp. Göppert 1850
see common names

Geography
Country:China State/province:Heilongjiang County:Jiayin
Coordinates: 48.9° North, 130.2° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:50.9° North, 116.8° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Altitude:79 meters
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Maastrichtian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 8
Key time interval:Maastrichtian
Age range of interval:72.10000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Jiayin Formation:Yuliangzi
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: "Several bone-bearing horizons have been excavated since the discovery of this site."
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:green,yellow conglomeratic sandstone
Secondary lithology:intraclastic,green mudstone
Includes fossils?Y
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "The dinosaur-bearing beds...consist of gray-green sandstones, purple mudstones, and a light-colored conglomerate." "an ancient fluvial environment with yellow coarse-grained channel deposits and green fine-grained floodplain deposits. Within these floodplain deposits several reddish-purple palaeosol horizons have been observed (Fig. 3D). Some of the green fine-grained deposits also contain a considerable amount of coarser lithic clasts (1 mm-6 cm). It is within these diamict layers that most of the dinosaur bones have been found."
Environment:"floodplain"
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Degree of concentration:-bonebed
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Spatial orientation:preferred
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Articulated whole bodies:none
Associated major elements:some
Disassociated major elements:many
Disassociated minor elements:many
Fragmentation:occasional
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:A. Kristofovich, M. Manakin, N. P. Stepanov, V. Arseniev, P. Godefroit Collection dates:1902, 1914–1917, 1925, 1975, 1977–
Collection method comments: St. Petersburg Geological Committee. Bolotsky et al. (2014) mention that it is possible that F. Schmidt discovered this site in 1866 (as "close to Pashkovo").
Metadata
Also known as:Belye Kruchi, Longgushan, Longguchan, White Cliffs
Database number:37811
Authorizer:M. Carrano, P. Mannion Enterer:M. Carrano, M. Oreska, P. Mannion
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2004-03-24 11:20:51 Last modified:2023-08-03 15:17:16
Access level:the public Released:2004-03-24 11:20:51
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
65750. Anonymous. 1917. Khronika i lichnyya izvestíya [Chronicle and personal information]. Ezhegodnik Russkogo Paleontologicheskogo Obshchestva 1:101-103 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

29447 I. Y. Bolotsky and Y. L. Bolotsky. 2008. Tyrannosaurids from the Amur (Heilongjiang) river basin. International Dinosaur Symposium in Fukui 2008: Recent Progress of the Study on Asian Dinosaurs and Paleoenvironments. Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum, Fukui 19-21 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
53533 I. Y. Bolotsky and V. G. Moiseyenko. 1988. O Dinozavrakh Priamur'ya [On Pre-Amurian dinosaurs] 1-37 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
56066 Y. L. Bolotsky, P. Godefroit, I. Y. Bolotsky and A. Atuchin. 2014. Hadrosaurs from the Far East: historical perspective and new Amurosaurus material from Blagoveschensk (Amur region, Russia). In D. A. Eberth & D. C. Evans (ed.), Hadrosaurs 315-331 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
13360ETE Z. Dong. 1992. Dinosaurian Faunas of China. China Ocean Press, Beijing 1-188 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
13061ETE C. W. Gilmore. 1933. On the dinosaurian fauna of the Iren Dabasu Formation. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 68(2-3):23-78 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
76447 P. Godefroit. 2000. A new late Maastrichtian lambeosaurine dinosaur from northeastern China. In M.-C. Buchy (ed.), 5th European Workshop on Vertebrate Palaeontology. Program. Abstracts. Excursion Guides 32 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
78242 P. Godefroit, Y. L. Bolo, and I. Y. Bolotsky. 2012. Osteology and relationships of Olorotitan arharensis, a hollow−crested hadrosaurid dinosaur from the latest Cretaceous of Far Eastern Russia. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 57(3):527-560 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
12501ETE P. Godefroit, Y. L. Bolotsky, and J. Van Itterbeeck. 2004. The lambeosaurine dinosaur Amurosaurus riabinini, from the Maastrichtian of Far Eastern Russia. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 49(4):575-618 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
78241 P. Godefroit, P. Lauters, J. Van Itterbeeck, Y. L. Bolotsky, Z. Dong, L. Jin, W. Wu, I. Y. Bolotsky, S. Hai and T. Yu. 2011. Recent advances on study of hadrosaurid dinosaurs in Heilongjiang (Amur) River area between China and Russia. Global Geology 14(3):160-191 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
10082 P. Godefroit, S. Zan, and L. Jin. 2000. Charonosaurus jiayinensis n. g., n. sp., a lambeosaurine dinosaur from the Late Maastrichtian of northeastern China. Compte Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences, Paris, Sciences de la Terre et des planètes 330:875-882 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
14517ETE D. B. Norman and H.-D. Sues. 2000. Ornithopods from Kazakhstan, Mongolia and Siberia. In M. J. Benton, M. A. Shishkin, D. M. Unwin, & E N. Kurichkin (eds.), The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia 462-479 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/M. Carrano]
62666 A. N. Riabinin. 1930. Mandschurosaurus amurensis nov. gen. nov. sp., verkhnemelovoy dinozavr s. r. Amura [Mandschurosaurus amurensis nov. gen, nov. sp., a hadrosaurian dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of the Amur River]. Monografii Russkogo Paleontologicheskogo Obshchestva 2:1-36 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
25545ETE A. N. Riabinin. 1931. Pozvonki dinozavra iz nizhnego mela Prikaspiyskikh stepey [Two dinosaurian vertebrae from the Lower Cretaceous of the Transcaspian steppes]. Zapiski Rossiyskogo Mineralogicheskogo Obshchestva 60(1):110-113 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
14374ETE A. K. Rozhdestvensky. 1973. The study of Cretaceous reptiles in Russia. Paleontological Journal 1973(2):90-99 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
14376ETE A. K. Rozhdestvensky. 1977. The study of dinosaurs in Asia. Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India 20:102-119 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
85555 A. K. Rozhdestvensky and L. I. Khozatsky. 1967. [Late Mesozoic terrestrial vertebrates from the Asiatic part of the USSR]. In G. G. Martinson (ed.), [Stratigraphy and Paleontology of the Mesozoic and Paleogene-Neogene continental deposits of the Asiatic part of the USSR] 82-92 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
71134 G. Sun, M. Akhmetiev, V. Markevich, A. R. Ashraf, E. Bugdaeva, P. Godefroit, Y. Bolotsky, Z. M. Dong, L. Golovneva, H. X. Yang, C. L. Sun, Y. W. Sun, C. Quan, T. Kodrul, T. Kezina, K. Johnson, H. Nishida, D. L. Dilcher, I. Harding and Y. J. Chen. 2011. Late Cretaceous biota and the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) boundary in Jiayin of Heilongjiang, China. Global Geology 14(3):115-143 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
61518 D. B. Weishampel and J. B. Weishampel. 1983. Annotated localities of ornithopod dinosaurs: implications to Mesozoic paleobiogeography. The Mosasaur 1:43-87 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
35015ETE W.-h. Wu, P. Godefroit, and J.-x. Han. 2010. A hadrosaurine dentary from Upper Cretaceous of Jiayin, Heilongjiang. Global Geology 29(1):1-5 [M. Carrano/M. Oreska/M. Oreska]
84672 K. Yu, W. Wu, I. Bolotsky, X. Zhang, F. Shen and P. Godefroit. 2022. The first occurrence of Troodon-morphotype tooth in Jiayin, Heilongjiang, Northeast China. Global Geology 25(3):133-145 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]