Fanying, Yangcheng: Cenomanian - Turonian, China
collected 1995

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Elongatoolithidae
Longiteresoolithus xixiaensis Wang and Zhou 1995
1 individual
synonym of Macroelongatoolithus carlylei
clutch with 13 egg pairs
see common names

Geography
Country:China State/province:Henan County:Xixia
Coordinates: 33.3° North, 111.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:35.2° North, 105.0° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Key time interval:Cenomanian - Turonian
Age range of interval:100.50000 - 89.80000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Gaogou
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Spatial orientation:life position
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Spatial resolution:autochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collection dates:1995
Metadata
Database number:178692
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2016-05-11 17:15:13 Last modified:2023-10-30 14:49:11
Access level:the public Released:2016-05-11 17:15:13
Creative Commons license:CC BY
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]
70244 D. J. Simon, D. J. Varricchio, Z. Jin and S. F. Robison. 2019. Microstructural overlap of Macroelongatoolithus eggs from Asia and North America expands the occurrence of colossal oviraptorosaurs. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 38(6):e1553046:1-16 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
59172 S.-q. Zhou and Z.-j. Feng. 2002. [Studies on the occurrence beds of Oölithus and their relations to the upper-lower boundarues in Henan province]. Resources Survey & Environment 23(1):68-76 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]