Tanankou (Cretaceous to of China)

Also known as Danangou

Where: Liaoning, China (41.2° N, 119.3° E: paleocoordinates 43.7° N, 121.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Yixian Formation (Jehol Group), Late/Upper Barremian to Late/Upper Barremian (130.0 - 122.5 Ma)

• "Lycoptera beds", orig. assigned to the Chuifotang (Jiufotang) Fm.; fossiliferous layer is 120 m above base of complex at site

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; gray, green shale and gray, white sandstone

• "alternation of thin bedded, pale gray to pale green shale and grayish white sandstone"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected by G. Umczaki in 1934

• Collected by Gentaro Umczaki

Primary reference: R. Endo. 1940. A new genus of Thecodontia from the Lycoptera Beds in Manchoukuo. Bulletin of the Central National Museum of Manchoukuo 2:1-14 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 73687: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 25.06.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Insecta
 Ephemeroptera - Hexagenitidae
Ephemeropsis trisetalis Eichwald 1864 mayfly
 Coleoptera - Elateridae
Sinoelaterium sp. Ping 1928 click beetle
 Hemiptera - Saldidae
Mesolygaeus sp. Ping 1928 shore bug
 Blattodea -
Sinoblatta laiyangensis Grabau 1923 cockroach
 Dicondylia - Chresmodidae
Chresmoda sp. Germar 1839 winged insect
Branchiopoda
 Diplostraca -
Estheria middendorfi Jones 1862 clam shrimp
Gnathostomata
  -
Osteichthyes indet. bony fish
"two other ganoid fishes, not identified yet"
Reptilia
 Choristodera -
Monjurosuchus splendens n. gen. n. sp.
Monjurosuchus splendens n. gen. n. sp. Endo 1940 choristodere
Amphibia
 Salientia -
Actinopteri
 Leptolepidiformes - Leptolepididae
Lycoptera davidi Sauvage 1880
Angiospermae
 Alismatales - Potamogetonaceae
Potamogeton sp. Linnaeus 1753 pondweed
Polypodiopsida
 Cyatheales - Polypodiidae
Coniopteris sp. Brongniart 1849 scaly tree fern
Ginkgoopsida
 Czekanowskiales -