Doushan Village: Barremian, China
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
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Pachygenys thlastesa n. gen., n. sp.
Gao and Cheng 1999
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2 specimens | |||||||||
| IGV 294, 295 right and left mandibles | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | China | State/province: | Shandong |
| Coordinates: | 37.0° North, 120.7° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 39.6° North, 123.5° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Early/Lower Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Barremian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 2 |
| Key time interval: | Barremian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 125.77000 - 121.40000 m.y. ago |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | red sandstone |
| Secondary lithology: | red mudstone |
| Lithology description: The Qingshan Group consists of gray-purple and grey andesites, rhyolites, trachytes, and agglomerates with red sandstongs and mudstones at the top...lizard specimens described in this paper were collected from the Doushan Formation (topmost part of the Qingshan Group) | |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Collection method comments: Geological Institute in the CHinese Academy of Sciences collection | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | ~5 km northwest of Laiyang | ||
| Database number: | 115163 | ||
| Authorizer: | R. Benson | Enterer: | R. Benson |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2011-08-30 02:09:27 | Last modified: | 2019-10-30 14:42:15 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2011-08-30 02:09:27 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 37285. | K. Gao and Z. Cheng. 1999. A new lizard from the Lower Cretaceous of Shandong, China. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 19:456-465 [R. Benson/R. Benson/R. Benson] |
Secondary references:
| 54168 | T. Ikeda, H. Ota, and H. Saegusa. 2015. A new fossil lizard from the Lower Cretaceous Sasayama Group of Hyogo Prefecture, western Honshu, Japan. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 35(1):e885032 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant/P. Mannion] |