Ningchiakou, Mengyin: Berriasian - Valanginian, China
collected by T'an 1920

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Dinosauria
see common names

Geography
Country:China State/province:Shandong County:Mengyin
Coordinates: 35.9° North, 118.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:40.8° North, 124.7° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Early Cretaceous
Stage: Berriasian - Valanginian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 1
Key time interval: Berriasian - Valanginian
Age range of interval: 143.1 - 132.6 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Mengyin
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Recent zircon dating has dated the Mengyin Formation to the Berriasian-Valanginian (Xu & Li, 2015)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:poor
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:T'an Collection dates:1920s
Metadata
Also known as:Ningjiagou, Uppsala/Geol. Survey China
Database number:62365
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:P. Mannion Research group:vertebrate
Created:2006-07-19 06:52:47 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2006-07-19 06:52:47
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
18021.ETE 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]

Secondary references:

38083 J. A. Wilson and P. Upchurch. 2009. Redescription and reassessment of the phylogenetic affinities of Euhelopus zdanskyi (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) from the Early Cretaceous of China. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 7(2):199-239 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/M. Carrano]