Archaeoceratops, Yujingzi Basin: Aptian, China
collected by CAGS 2002
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
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Archaeoceratops yujingziensis n. sp.
You et al. 2010
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1 individual | |||||||||
CAGS-IG-VD-003 | ||||||||||
Hadrosauroidea indet.
(Huene 1954)
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You et al. 2019 | |||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | China | State/province: | Gansu |
Coordinates: | 40.5° North, 98.1° East (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 40.0° North, 98.6° East | ||
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Early/Lower Cretaceous |
Stage: | Aptian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 3 |
Key time interval: | Aptian | ||
Age range of interval: | 125.00000 - 113.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Geological group: | Xinminbao | Formation: | Xiagou | Member: | Upper Gray Beds |
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: from near base of Early Cretaceous series in basin= Xinminpu |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | gray "siliciclastic" |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: "gray-variegated beds" | |
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
Fragmentation: | frequent |
Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | mechanical,field collection | ||
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
Collectors: | CAGS | Collection dates: | 2002 |
Metadata
Database number: | 97754 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2010-08-27 12:21:20 | Last modified: | 2019-11-14 15:56:55 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2010-08-27 12:21:20 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
33414. | ETE | H.-L. You, K. Tanoue, and P. Dodson. 2010. A new species of Archaeoceratops (Dinosauria: Neoceratopsia) from the Early Cretaceous of the Mazongshan area, northwestern China. In M. J. Ryan, B. J. Chinnery-Allgeier, D. A. Eberth (eds.), New Perspectives on Horned Dinosaurs: The Royal Tyrrell Museum Ceratopsian Symposium. Indiana University Press, Bloomington 59-67 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
70927 | K. Tanoue, D. Li, and H. You. 2012. Tooth replacement pattern in maxillary dentition of basal Neoceratopsia. Bulletin of the Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History and Human History, Series A 10:123-127 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
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] |