Longgujian Quarry (loc. 090414): Campanian, China
collected 1964

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Hadrosauridae
5 individuals
GMV V.1780-1 (1 measurement)
Reptilia - Tyrannosauridae
5 specimens
GMC V286, V288, V1174, V1773, V1777
    = Tyrannosaurus zhuchengensis n. sp. Hu et al. 2001
Hone et al. 2011
see common names

Geography
Country:China State/province:Shandong County:Chucheng
Coordinates: 36.0° North, 119.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:33.9° North, 115.7° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Altitude:70 meters
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Late Cretaceous
Stage: Campanian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 7
Key time interval: Campanian
Age range of interval: 83.6 - 72.2 m.y. ago
Age estimate: 77.3 ± 1.54 to 73.5 ± 0.3 Ma (U/Pb)
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Wangshi Formation:Hongtuya
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray,green conglomeratic sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "A layer of greyish green conglomeratic sandstone between red rocky strata"
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Geology comments: lake shore or river bed
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Spatial orientation:random
Abundance in sediment:abundant
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,surface (float),surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection dates:1964
Metadata
Also known as:Chucheng, Zhucheng, Kugou, Lungkuchian gully, Konglongjian
Database number:57178
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:K. Maguire, M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-12-08 11:46:10 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2005-12-08 11:46:10
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
15491.ETE C.-C. Hu. 1973. [A new hadrosaur from the Cretaceous of Chucheng, Shantung]. Acta Geologica Sinica 1973(2):179-206 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

76736 W. An, H.-W. Kuang, W.-Q. Liu, N. Peng, K.-M. Xu, H. Xu, P. Zhang, K.-B. Wang, S.-Q. Chen and Y.-X. Zhang. 2016. Detrital zircon dating and tracing the provenance of dinosaur bone beds from the Late Cretaceous Wangshi Group in Zhucheng, Shandong, East China. Journal of Palaeogeography 5(1):72-99 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
55080 D. W. E. Hone, C. Sullivan, Q. Zhao, K. Wang, and X. Xu. 2014. Body size distribution in a death assemblage of a colossal hadrosaurid from the Upper Cretaceous of Zhucheng, Shandong Province, China. In D. A. Eberth & D. C. Evans (ed.), Hadrosaurs 524-531 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
35717 D. W. E. Hone, K. Wang, C. Sullivan, X. Zhao, S. Chen, D. Li, S. Ji, Q. Ji, and X. Xu. 2011. A new, large tyrannosaurine theropod from the Upper Cretaceous of China. Cretaceous Research 32:495-503 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Carrano]
70566 H. Kuang, K. Xu, Y. Liu, C. Dong, N. Peng, K. Wang, S. Chen and Y. Zhang. 2013. [Geochemistry and taphonomy of Late Cretaceous dinosaur bonebeds in Zhucheng, eastern Shandong, China]. 59(6):1001-1023 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
17477ETE R. E. Molnar. 1991. The cranial morphology of Tyrannosaurus rex. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 217(4-6):137-176 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
61518 D. B. Weishampel and J. B. Weishampel. 1983. Annotated localities of ornithopod dinosaurs: implications to Mesozoic paleobiogeography. The Mosasaur 1:43-87 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
81207 H. Xing, X. Zhao, K. Wang, D. Li, S. Chen, J. C. Mallon, Y. Zhang and X. Xu. 2014. Comparative osteology and phylogenetic relationship of Edmontosaurus and Shantungosaurus (Dinosauria: Hadrosauridae) from the Upper Cretaceous of North America and East Asia. Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition) 88(6):1801-1840 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]