Liaoningvenator-type locality duplicate: Late/Upper Barremian - Early/Lower Aptian, China
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Geography
| Country: | China | State/province: | Liaoning |
| Coordinates: | 41.6° North, 120.9° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 44.3° North, 122.8° East |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Early/Lower Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Barremian | ||
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Barremian - Early/Lower Aptian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 125.77000 - 119.50000 m.y. ago |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified "volcaniclastic" | ||
| Lithology description: Fluvial and volcaniclastic beds of the basal Yixian Formation | |||
| Environment: | fluvial indet. | Tectonic setting: | volcanic basin |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
| Fragmentation: | occasional |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 203179 | ||
| Authorizer: | G. Lloyd | Enterer: | G. Lloyd |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2019-08-05 12:15:54 | Last modified: | 2023-04-28 10:55:17 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2019-08-05 12:15:54 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 69685. | C.-z. Shen, B. Zhao, and C.-l. Gao, J.-c., and M. Kundrát. 2017. A new troodontid dinosaur (Liaoningvenator curriei gen. et sp. nov.) from the Early Cretaceous Yixian Formation in western Liaoning Province. Acta Geoscientica Sinica 38(3):359-371 [G. Lloyd/G. Lloyd/M. Carrano] |