Yankan village: Late Maastrichtian, China
collected by Henan Natural History Museum
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Theropoda
- Oviraptoridae
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Yulong mini
Lü et al. 2013
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Wei et al. 2022 | |||||||||
| 41HIII-0706 (incomplete skeleton with forelimbs, 29 caudal vertebrae, partial humerus and pectoral girdles) | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Multituberculata
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Yubaatar zhongyuanensis n. gen., n. sp.
Xu et al. 2015
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| 41HIII0111 - holotype (partial skeleton with nearly complete cranium, associated dentary bones and partial postcranium) | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | China | State/province: | Henan | County: | Luanchuan |
| Coordinates: | 34.1° North, 111.6° East (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 33.2° North, 102.2° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Maastrichtian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 8 |
| Key time interval: | Late Maastrichtian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 72.1 - 66 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Qiupa | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: "late Late Cretaceous"
Bed about 30-50 m below the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) boundary in sections where the Paleogene Gaoyugou Formation and Late Cretaceous Qiupa Formation were thought to be in conformable contact | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | brown siltstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: Brownish siltstones | |
| Environment: | fluvial-lacustrine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Collectors: | Henan Natural History Museum |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Qiupa Town | ||
| Database number: | 174234 | ||
| Authorizer: | P. Mannion | Enterer: | P. Mannion |
| Modifier: | P. Mannion | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2015-11-06 06:10:11 | Last modified: | 2022-08-17 10:02:29 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2015-11-06 06:10:11 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 56877. | L. Xu, X. Zhang, H. Pu, S. Jia, and J. Zhang, J., and J. Meng. 2015. Largest known Mesozoic multituberculate from Eurasia and implications for multituberculate evolution and biology. Scientific Reports 5:14950:1-11 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/P. Mannion] |
Secondary references:
| 82401 | X. Wei, M. Kundrát, L. Xu, W. Ma, Y. Wu, H. Chang, J. Zhang and X. Zhou. 2022. A new subadult specimen of oviraptorid Yulong mini (Theropoda: Oviraptorosauria) from the Upper Cretaceous Qiupa Formation of Luanchuan, central China. Cretaceous Research 138:105261 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion] |