Suzhousaurus paratype, Jiuquan, Yujingzi Basin: Early/Lower Albian, China
collected 2004
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Therizinosauridae
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Suzhousaurus megatherioides
Li et al. 2007
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1 individual | |||||||||
| FRDC-GSJB-2004-001 | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | China | State/province: | Gansu |
| Coordinates: | 39.9° North, 98.5° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 40.3° North, 95.3° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Early/Lower Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Albian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 4 |
| Key time interval: | Early/Lower Albian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 113.00000 - 109.90000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Xinminbao | Formation: | Zhonggou | Member: | Lower Red Beds |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: = Xinminpu Group | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | wave ripples,planar lamination,gray,white "shale" |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "white to grey sandy shale in massive to finely laminated beds, with small-scale (<1 cm) symmetrical wave ripples." | |
| Environment: | lacustrine - small |
| Geology comments: "an epilimnional lacustrine environment, sufficiently shallow to allow small oscillatory currents to 'touch' bottom." | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Degree of concentration: | dispersed |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
| Associated major elements: | all |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
| Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | Collection dates: | 2004 |
Metadata
| Database number: | 84007 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2008-09-15 12:16:39 | Last modified: | 2022-03-23 14:29:28 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2008-09-15 12:16:39 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 28145. | ETE | D.-q. Li, H.-l. You, and Z.-p. Zhang. 2008. A new specimen of Suzhousaurus megatherioides (Dinosauria: Therizinosauroidea) from the Early Cretaceous of northwestern China. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 45:769-779 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 70223 | H. You, E. M. Morschhauser, D. Li and P. Dodson. 2019. Introducing the Mazongshan Dinosaur Fauna. In H. You, P. Dodson, & E. M. Morschhauser (eds.), Auroraceratops rugosus (Ornithischia, Ceratopsia) from the Early Cretaceous of northwestern Gansu Province, China. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Memoir 18. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 38(supplement):1-11 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 80958 | L. E. Zanno. 2010. A taxonomic and phylogenetic re-evaluation of Therizinosauria (Dinosauria: Maniraptora). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 8(4):503-543 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |