PBDB Collection

Houzhuang village, Xiaguan Basin (IVPP): Early Turonian - Middle Campanian, China
collected 1975-1994

List of taxa

Where & when

Geology

Taphonomy & methods

Metadata & references

Taxonomic list

Reptilia

	Sauropoda indet. (Marsh 1878)	Liang et al. 2009

	Dinosauria indet. Owen 1842		1 specimen
	footprint
	= ? Theropoda indet. Marsh 1881	Matsukawa et al. 2006
	= Ornithopoda indet. Marsh 1881	Xing et al. 2009
Reptilia - Spheroolithidae

	Paraspheroolithus sp. Zhao 1979	Liang et al. 2009
Reptilia

	Nanyangosaurus zhugeii n. gen., n. sp. Xu et al. 2000	Xu et al. 2000	1 individual
	IVPP V11821 (1 measurement)
Reptilia - Ovaloolithidae

	Ovaloolithus sp. Zhao 1979	Liang et al. 2009
Reptilia - Youngoolithidae

	Youngoolithus xiaguanensis n. gen., n. sp. Zhao 1979		16 specimens
	IVPP V5783; 1 clutch with 16 eggs (field no. 75029)
see common names

Country:	China	State/province:	Henan	County:	Neixiang
Coordinates:	33.5° North, 112.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:	30.8° North, 112.0° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:	based on nearby landmark
Altitude:	260 meters
Geographic resolution:	outcrop

Period:	Cretaceous	Epoch:	Late Cretaceous
Stage:	Turonian - Campanian	10 m.y. bin:	Cretaceous 6 - Cretaceous 7
Key time interval:	Early Turonian - Middle Campanian
Age range of interval:	93.9 - 72.2 m.y. ago

Formation:	Majiacun
Stratigraphic resolution:	bed
Stratigraphy comments: Possibly Albian; also listed as "lower part of the Xiaguan Formation (equivalent of the Gaogou Fm., Xixia Basin)" and Sangping Formation

Primary lithology:	brown,red silty,sandy mudstone
Secondary lithology:	gray sandy conglomerate
Includes fossils?	Y
Lithology description: "purplish red and brown sandy mudstone interbedded with thin layers of gray sandy conglomerate"; "purple-red muddy siltstone"
Environment:	terrestrial indet.

Modes of preservation:	body,mold/impression,trace
Size of fossils:	macrofossils
Spatial orientation:	life position
Preservation of anatomical detail:	good
Associated major elements:	some
Disassociated major elements:	some
Spatial resolution:	autochthonous

Collection methods:	surface (in situ),mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:	taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:	IVPP
Collection dates:	1975-1994
Collection method comments: Thousands of dinosaur eggs were also found and collected.

Also known as:	Nanyangosaurus type, Neixiang
Database number:	55688
Authorizer:	M. Carrano	Enterer:	K. Maguire, M. Carrano
Modifier:	M. Carrano	Research group:	vertebrate
Created:	2005-11-02 12:24:11	Last modified:	2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:	the public	Released:	2005-11-02 12:24:11
Creative Commons license:	CC0

14221	ETE	K. Carpenter and K. Alf. 1994. Global distribution of dinosaur eggs, nests, and babies. In K. Carpenter, K. F. Hirsch, and J. R. Horner (eds.), Dinosaur Eggs and Babies, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 13-30 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
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]
16852	ETE	M. Matsukawa, M. G. Lockley, and J. Li. 2006. Cretaceous terrestrial biotas of East Asia, with special reference to dinosaur-dominated ichnofaunas: towards a synthesis. Cretaceous Research 27(1):3-21 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
34592	ETE	L.-d. Xing, J. D. Harris, Z.-m. Dong, Y.-l. Lin, W. Chen, S.-b. Guo, and Q. Ji. 2009. Ornithopod (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) tracks from the Upper Cretaceous Zhutian Formation in the Nanxiong Basin, Guangdong, China and general observations on large Chinese ornithopod footprints. Geological Bulletin of China 28(7):829-843 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
14921	ETE	X. Xu, X.-J. Zhao, J.-C., W.-B. Huang, Z.-Y. Li and Z.-M. Dong. 2000. A new iguanodontian from Sangping Formation of Neixiang, Henan and its stratigraphical implication. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 38(3):176-191 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
33948	ETE	S.-K. Zhang. 2010. [A parataxonomic revision of the Cretaceous faveoloolithid eggs of China]. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 48(3):203-219 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
14230	ETE	S. Zhen, J. Li, C. Rao, N. J. Mateer, and M. G. Lockley. 1989. A review of dinosaur footprints in China. In D. D. Gillette and M. G. Lockley (eds.), Dinosaur Tracks and Traces. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 187-197 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]