SCDP site 10, Iren Dabasu: Middle Campanian - Late/Upper Campanian, China
collected 1988-1990
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Testudines
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Testudines indet.
Batsch 1788
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| skull | ||||||||||
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= Khunnuchelys erinhotensis n. gen., n. sp.
Brinkman et al. 1993
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Brinkman et al. 1993 | |||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | China | State/province: | Nei Mongol |
| Coordinates: | 43.7° North, 112.0° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 42.9° North, 100.7° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||
| 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 | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: The Iren Dabasu Formation is Middle–Late Campanian according to Xing et al. 2012 | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | fluvial-lacustrine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Degree of concentration: | dispersed |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | bulk,selective quarrying,mechanical,field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | Collection dates: | 1988-1990 |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Erlian, site I | ||
| Database number: | 49367 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | P. Mannion | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2005-04-14 10:11:46 | Last modified: | 2017-09-21 05:02:46 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-04-14 10:11:46 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 13181. | ETE | P. J. Currie and D. A. Eberth. 1993. Palaeontology, sedimentology and palaeoecology of the Iren Dabasu Formation (Upper Cretaceous), Inner Mongolia, People's Republic of China. Cretaceous Research 14:127-144 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 19683 | ETE | D. B. Brinkman, L. A. Nessov, and J.-H. Peng. 1993. Khunnuchelys gen. nov., a new trionychid (Testudines: Trionychidae) from the Late Cretaceous of Inner Mongolia and Uzbekistan. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 30(10-11):2214-2223 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/E. Vlachos] |
| 51224 | H. Xing, Y. -M. He, L. Li and D. Xi. 2012. A review of the study of the stratigraphy, sedimentology, and paleontology of the Iren Dabasu Formation, Inner Mongolia. In W. Dong (ed.), Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual Meeting of the Chinese Society of Vertebrate Paleontology 1-44 [R. Benson/R. Benson] |