Wucaiwan sauropod (IVPP): Oxfordian, China
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Metriacanthosauridae
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Sinraptoridae indet.
Currie and Zhao 1994
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1 individual | |||||||||
| synonym of Metriacanthosauridae | ||||||||||
| IVPP V15310 | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
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Sauropoda indet.
(Marsh 1878)
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1 individual | |||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | China | State/province: | Xinjiang |
| Coordinates: | 45.2° North, 88.9° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 46.8° North, 91.3° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||
| Geographic resolution: | local area |
Time
| Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Late/Upper Jurassic |
| Stage: | Oxfordian | 10 m.y. bin: | Jurassic 5 |
| Key time interval: | Oxfordian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 161.50000 - 154.80000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | medium |
| Associated major elements: | some |
| Disassociated major elements: | some |
| Size sorting: | very poor |
| Fragmentation: | occasional |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,mechanical,field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | IVPP |
Metadata
| Database number: | 83957 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2008-09-11 14:45:04 | Last modified: | 2021-03-26 12:42:56 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2008-09-11 14:45:04 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 28124. | ETE | X. Xu and J. M. Clark. 2008. The presence of a gigantic theropod in the Jurassic Shishugou Formation, Junggar Basin, western China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 46(2):157-160 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |