Western slope of Tashan Hill: Berriasian - Valanginian, China
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
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Shantungosuchus chuhsienensis n. gen., n. sp.
Young 1961
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| IVPP V. 2484 - holotype (imprint of a near complete skeleton) | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | China | State/province: | Shandong |
| Coordinates: | 36.2° North, 118.1° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 41.2° North, 124.7° East (Wright 2013) | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Early Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Berriasian - Valanginian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 1 |
| Key time interval: | Berriasian - Valanginian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 143.1 - 132.6 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Mengyin | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Recent zircon dating has dated the Mengyin Formation to the Berriasian-Valanginian (Xu & Li, 2015) | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | gray,green sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: A slab of greyish green sandstone | |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,mechanical,field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Shantungosuchus chuhsienensis type locality | ||
| Database number: | 118214 | ||
| Authorizer: | P. Mannion | Enterer: | P. Mannion |
| Modifier: | P. Mannion | ||
| Created: | 2011-10-09 07:07:55 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2011-10-09 07:07:55 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 24219. | ETE | C.-C. Young. 1961. On a new crocodile from Chuhsien, E. Shantung. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 5(1):6-10 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/P. Mannion] |
Secondary references:
| 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] | |
| 37601 | X.-C. Wu, D. B. Brinkman, and J.-C. Lu. 1994. A new species of Shantungosuchus from the Lower Cretaceous of Inner Mongolia (China), with comments on S. chuhsienensis Young, 1961 and the phylogenetic position of the genus. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 14(2):210-229 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion] |