Ningchiakou, Mengyin: Berriasian - Valanginian, China
collected by Metrens, T'an, Andersson, & Zdansky; Young & Bien 1913–1923
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Sinamiidae
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Sinamia zdanskyi
Stensio 1935
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Young 1935 | |||||||||
Actinopteri
- Hiodontiformes
- Hiodontidae
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Tanichthys ningjiagouensis n. gen., n. sp.
Jin 1991
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Jin 1991 | 12 specimens | ||||||||
IVPP V.8948.1-12 | ||||||||||
Actinopteri
- Leptolepidiformes
- Leptolepididae
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Lycoptera sp.
Müller 1847
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Young 1935 | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Testudines
- Sinochelyidae
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Sinochelys applanata n. gen., n. sp.
Wiman 1930
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Wiman 1930 | |||||||||
Scutemys tecta
Wiman 1930
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Young 1935 | |||||||||
synonym of Sinochelys applanata | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Testudines
- Sinemydidae
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Ordosemys leios
Brinkman and Peng 1993
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Li et al. 2019 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
IVPG-T001-1-4 | ||||||||||
Sinemys lens n. gen., n. sp.
Wiman 1930
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Wiman 1930 | 7 specimens | ||||||||
PMU.R 1500-1506 | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Dsungaripteridae
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Theropoda indet.
Marsh 1881
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Young 1935 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
Ulna | ||||||||||
= ? Dsungaripteridae indet.
Young 1964
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Young 1964 | |||||||||
Reptilia
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Stegosauria indet.
(Marsh 1877)
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Borinder et al. 2016 | 4 specimens | ||||||||
PMU 24724 (formerly PMU R275), PMU 24040/1 and PMU 24040/2: three dorsal vertebrae. PMU 24723 (formerly PMU R276): an isolated dermal spine | ||||||||||
Dinosauria indet.
(Owen 1842)
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1 individual | |||||||||
(5 measurements) | ||||||||||
= Helopus zdanskyi n. gen., n. sp.
Wiman 1929
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Wiman 1929 | |||||||||
recombined as Euhelopus zdanskyi | ||||||||||
PMU 233 - holotype - exemplars a & c (partial skull [R and L premaxillae, maxillae, lacrimals, quadratojugals & palatines, L nasal, L postorbital, L squamosal, R quadrate, R pterygoid] and lower jaws [R & L dentaries, surangulars, angulars, L prearticular], 28 articulated presacral vertebrae, L scapula, L coracoid, L humerus & L femur). Accession # and whereabouts of exemplar c are unknown. (now PMU 24705) | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | China | State/province: | Shandong | County: | Mengyin |
Coordinates: | 35.9° North, 118.0° East (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 36.9° North, 120.2° East | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||||
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Early/Lower Cretaceous |
10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 1 | ||
Key time interval: | Berriasian - Valanginian | ||
Age range of interval: | 145.00000 - 132.60000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Mengyin | ||||
Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: Fossils from "lower and middle Mengyin Series". Full age range ascribed to the Mengyin Formation is Tithonian to Aptian (but see Wilson and Upchurch 2009).
Recent zircon dating has dated the Mengyin Formation to the Berriasian-Valanginian (Xu & Li, 2015) |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | green,yellow sandstone |
Secondary lithology: | green,yellow siltstone |
Lithology description: "green and yellowish sandstones, marls, silstones, and shales" | |
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Degree of concentration: | dispersed |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
Articulated whole bodies: | some |
Associated major elements: | some |
Disassociated major elements: | some |
Disassociated minor elements: | some |
Fragmentation: | occasional |
Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | selective quarrying,surface (float),surface (in situ),mechanical,field collection | ||
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
Collectors: | Metrens, T'an, Andersson, & Zdansky; Young & Bien | Collection dates: | 1913–1923 |
Collection method comments: Original discovery about 1913 by Father Metrens (Catholic priest), site rediscovered 1922 by Andersson and T'an, then excavated 1923 by Zdansky. |
Metadata
Also known as: | Ningjiagou, Uppsala/Geol. Survey China; Euhelopus zdanskyi type, Ning Chia Kou | ||
Database number: | 47070 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Carrano, P. Mannion | Enterer: | M. Carrano, P. Mannion |
Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2005-02-07 06:05:19 | Last modified: | 2023-11-20 13:00:25 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-02-07 06:05:19 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
40224. | H. C. T'an. 1923. New research on the Mesozoic and early Tertiary geology in Shantung. Geological Survey of China Bulletin 5:95-135 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
86528 | N. H. Borinder, S. F. Poropat, and B. P. Kear. 2016. Reassessment of the earliest documented stegosaurian fossils from Asia. Cretaceous Research 68:61-69 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
13360 | ETE | Z. Dong. 1992. Dinosaurian Faunas of China. China Ocean Press, Beijing 1-188 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
58575 | Z. Dong. 1997. Chinese dinosaurs. In P. J. Currie & K. Padian (ed.), Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs 118-124 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
36736 | ETE | Z. Dong. 1998. On Asiatic sauropods and their phylogenetic relationships. In A. M. G. de Carvalho, A. M. Andrade, V. F. dos Santos, J. Cascalho, R. Taborda, (eds.), I Encontro Internacional sobre Paleobiologia dos Dinossáurios. Museu Nacional de História Natural, Lisboa 79-88 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
63054 | C. W. Gilmore. 1939. A review of recent progress in reptilian paleontology. Bulletin of the Geological Society of America 50:337-348 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
39693 | F. Jin. 1991. [A new genus and species of Hiodontidae from Xintai, Shandong]. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 29(1):46-54 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
67740 | D.-Q. Li, C.-F. Zhou, L. Li, J.-T. Yang, L. Li and M. Rabi. 2019. The sinemydid turtle Ordosemys from the Lower Cretaceous Mengyin Formation of Shandong, China and its implication for the age of the Luohandong Formation of the Ordos Basin. PeerJ 7:e6229:1-23 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/P. Mannion] | |
14475 | ETE | V. Martin-Rolland. 1999. Les sauropodes chinois [The Chinese sauropods]. Revue Paléobiologie, Genève 18(1):287-315 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
62065 | N. J. Mateer. 1997. Sino-Swedish expeditions. In P. J. Currie & K. Padian (ed.), Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs 662 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
19281 | ETE | N. J. Mateer and S. G. Lucas. 1985. Swedish vertebrate palaeontology in China: a history of the Lagrelius Collection. Bulletin of the Geological Institutions of the University of Uppsala, New Series 11:1-24 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
14680 | ETE | N. J. Mateer and J. S. McIntosh. 1985. A new reconstruction of the skull of Euhelopus zdanskyi (Saurischia: Sauropoda). Bulletin of the Geological Institutions of the University of Uppsala, New Series 11:125-132 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
47166 | S. F. Poropat. 2013. Carl Wiman's sauropods: The Uppsala Museum of Evolution's collection. GFF (Geologiska Foreningen) 135(1):104-119 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant/M. Carrano] | |
41695 | V. B. Sukhanov. 2000. Mesozoic turtles of Middle and Central Asia. In M. J. Benton, M. A. Shishkin, D. M. Unwin, & E N. Kurichkin (eds.), The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia 309-367 [R. Benson/R. Benson/M. Carrano] | |
38083 | J. A. Wilson and P. Upchurch. 2009. Redescription and reassessment of the phylogenetic affinities of Euhelopus zdanskyi (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) from the Early Cretaceous of China. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 7(2):199-239 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/M. Carrano] | |
18021 | ETE | C. Wiman. 1929. Die Kreide-Dinosaurier aus Shantung [The Cretaceous dinosaurs of Shantung]. Palaeontologia Sinica, Series C 6(1):1-67 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
44012 | C. Wiman. 1930. Fossile Schildfröten aus China. Palaeontologica Sinica C 6(3):1-55 [R. Benson/R. Benson] | |
12536 | ETE | C.-C. Young. 1935. Dinosaurian remains from Mengyin, Shantung. Bulletin of the Geological Society of China 14(4):519-533 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
24283 | ETE | C.-C. Young. 1964. On a new pterosaurian from Sinkiang, China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 8(3):221-255 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |