List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Prismatoolithidae
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| 1 individual | ||||||||||
| clutch with 17 eggs | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | China | State/province: | Henan |
| Coordinates: | 33.2° North, 111.8° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 29.9° North, 113.8° East (Wright 2013) | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Majiacun |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | sandy mudstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "sandy mudstone" | |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Spatial orientation: | life position |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
| Spatial resolution: | autochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 178691 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2016-05-11 17:09:48 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2016-05-11 17:09:48 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 86216. | D. Wang and S. Zhou. 1995. [The discovery of new typical dinosaur egg fossils in Xixia Basin]. Henan Geology 13(4):262-267 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 59122 | X. Liang, S. Wen, D. Yang, S. Zhou, and S. Wu. 2009. Dinosaur eggs and dinosaur egg-bearing deposits (Upper Cretaceous) of Henan Province, China: Occurrences, palaeoenvironments, taphonomy and preservation. Progress in Natural Science 19(11):1587-1601 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |