SCDP Ulan Obo vertebrate site: Valanginian - Albian, China
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
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Psittacosaurus sp.
Osborn 1923
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3 specimens | ||||||
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Reptilia
- Champsosauridae
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Champsosauridae indet.
Cope 1876
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Reptilia
- Testudines
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Testudines indet.
Batsch 1788
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Geography
| Country: | China | State/province: | Nei Mongol |
| Coordinates: | 39.9° North, 108.3° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 41.0° North, 109.3° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Altitude: | 1348 meters | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Early/Lower Cretaceous |
| Key time interval: | Valanginian - Albian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 139.80000 - 100.50000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Ejinhoro | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: mapped as Zhidan Group but authors think it conforms better to Ejinhoro Formation; fossils from a 12 m sequence | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | red "siliciclastic" |
| Secondary lithology: | "cross stratification",micaceous,green sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "rusty-red strata...overlain by at least 30 m of highly cross-bedded micaceous green sandstones containing little fossil material except a few scraps of aquatic turtles." | |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
| Associated major elements: | some |
| Disassociated major elements: | some |
| Disassociated minor elements: | some |
| Fragmentation: | occasional |
| Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 46907 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2005-01-26 09:04:32 | Last modified: | 2007-06-15 13:38:43 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-01-26 09:04:32 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 12466. | ETE | D. A. Russell and X.-J. Zhao. 1996. New psittacosaur occurrences in Inner Mongolia. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 33(4):637-648 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |