southeast of Ch'ing-Shan, Laiyang: Aptian - Albian, China
collected by T'an 1923

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
Dinosauria indet. (Owen 1842)
1 specimen
    = Sauropoda indet. Marsh 1878
Wiman 1929
PMU R263 (anterior caudal vertebra)= PMU 24709
    = Diplodocidae indet. Marsh 1884
Upchurch and Mannion 2009
    = Titanosauriformes indet. Salgado et al. 1997
Whitlock et al. 2011
    = Titanosauria indet. Bonaparte and Coria 1993
Mannion et al. 2013
see common names

Geography
Country:China State/province:Shandong County:Laiyang
Coordinates: 36.8° North, 120.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:41.1° North, 119.4° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Early Cretaceous
Stage: Aptian - Albian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 3 - Cretaceous 4
Key time interval: Aptian - Albian
Age range of interval: 121.4 - 100.5 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Qingshan Formation:Doushan
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: = Chingshan, Ch'ing-shan; lower part of formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:green,yellow sandstone
Secondary lithology:brown,red mudstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "green and yellowish sandstones, marls, silstones, and shales" - fossil in matrix of "purple/red-brown mudstone"
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Degree of concentration:dispersed
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Disassociated minor elements:all
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collectors:T'an Collection dates:1923
Collection method comments: spring 1923
Metadata
Also known as:Uppsala/Geol. Survey China, Chingshan
Database number:62328
Authorizer:M. Carrano, P. Mannion Enterer:M. Carrano, P. Mannion
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2006-07-18 13:52:30 Last modified:2019-10-30 14:42:09
Access level:the public Released:2006-07-18 13:52:30
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
40224. H. C. T'an. 1923. New research on the Mesozoic and early Tertiary geology in Shantung. Geological Survey of China Bulletin 5:95-135 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

46153 P. D. Mannion, P. Upchurch, R. N. Barnes and O. Mateus. 2013. Osteology of the Late Jurassic Portuguese sauropod dinosaur Lusotitan atalaiensis (Macronaria) and the evolutionary history of basal titanosauriforms. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 168:98-206 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
47166 S. F. Poropat. 2013. Carl Wiman's sauropods: The Uppsala Museum of Evolution's collection. GFF (Geologiska Foreningen) 135(1):104-119 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant/M. Carrano]
38080 P. Upchurch and P. D. Mannion. 2009. The first diplodocid from Asia and its implications for the evolutionary history of sauropod dinosaurs. Palaeontology 52(6):1195-1207 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
38143 J. A. Whitlock, M. D. D'Emic, and J. A. Wilson. 2011. Cretaceous diplodocids in Asia? Re-evaluating the phylogenetic affinities of a fragmentary specimen. Palaeontology 54(2):351-364 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/M. Carrano]
18021ETE C. Wiman. 1929. Die Kreide-Dinosaurier aus Shantung [The Cretaceous dinosaurs of Shantung]. Palaeontologia Sinica, Series C 6(1):1-67 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]