Also known as Guanlong type site
Where: Xinjiang, China (45.2° N, 88.9° E: paleocoordinates 46.8° N, 91.3° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Upper Member (Shishugou Formation), Oxfordian (163.5 - 157.3 Ma)
• upper part of formation
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: mire or swamp; tabular, bioturbated, tuffaceous, yellow, carbonaceous mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected in 2002-2004; reposited in the IVPP
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,
Primary reference: X. Xu, J. M. Clark, C. A. Forster, M. A. Norell, G. M. Erickson, D. A. Eberth, C. Jai and Q. Zhao. 2006. A basal tyrannosauroid dinosaur from the Late Jurassic of China. Nature 439:715-718 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 58489: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 09.02.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Guanlong wucaii n. gen. n. sp.
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