Huangnitan: Valanginian - Albian, China
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Sinemydidae
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Dracochelys bicuspis
Gaffney and Ye 1992
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Geography
| Country: | China | State/province: | Xinjiang | County: | Jimasur |
| Coordinates: | 45.0° North, 88.9° East (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 43.8° North, 89.9° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Early/Lower Cretaceous |
| Key time interval: | Valanginian - Albian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 139.80000 - 100.50000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Tugulu | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: The locality is at the base of a localized series of cliffs at the west end of an ephemeral lakebed just south of Saquihe. The locality is located in fluvial–lacustrine beds of the Tugulu Group. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | fluvial-lacustrine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | excellent |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 61095 | ||
| Authorizer: | P. Holroyd | Enterer: | P. Holroyd |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2006-05-29 18:01:26 | Last modified: | 2022-02-18 14:11:46 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-05-29 18:01:26 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 17567. | D. B. Brinkman. 2001. New material of Dracochelys (Eucryptodira: Sinemydidae) from the Junggar Basin, Xinjiang, People’s Republic of China. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 38:1645-1651 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd/J. Alroy] |