Tungkou, Chiangchunting, Laiyang: Campanian, China
collected by C.-C. Young 1952

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Spheroolithidae
1 individual
IVPP V733
Chao and Chiang 1974
see common names

Geography
Country:China State/province:Shandong County:Laiyang
Coordinates: 36.9° North, 120.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:35.1° North, 116.7° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Altitude:0 meters
Geographic resolution:outcrop
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
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Wangshi Formation:Jingangkou
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: middle part of series
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:red claystone
Secondary lithology: sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: red clay beds between sandstone bands
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Spatial orientation:life position
Associated major elements:all
Fragmentation:occasional
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Spatial resolution:autochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:IVPP
Collectors:C.-C. Young Collection dates:1952
Metadata
Also known as:Chiangchiungting
Database number:80113
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2008-04-04 14:05:43 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2008-04-04 14:05:43
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
26942. C.-C. Young. 1954. Fossil reptilian eggs from Laiyang, Shantung, China. Scientia Sinica 3(4):505-522 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

24337ETE T.-k. Chao and T.-k. Chiang. 1974. Microscopic studies on the dinosaurian egg-shells from Laiyang, Shanting province. Scientia Sinica 17(1):73-90 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
27284ETE K. E. Mikhailov. 1991. Classification of fossil eggshells of amniotic vertebrates. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 36(2):193-238 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]