Archaeoceratops, Yujingzi Basin: Aptian, China
collected by CAGS 2002

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
Archaeoceratops yujingziensis n. sp. You et al. 2010
1 individual
CAGS-IG-VD-003
Hadrosauroidea indet. (Huene 1954)
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]