Lingyuan City: Late/Upper Barremian - Early/Lower Aptian, China
collected by Hao

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
Zhongornis haoae n. gen., n. sp. Gao et al. 2008
1 individual
DNHM D2455/6
Reptilia - Pengornithidae
Pengornis sp. Zhou et al. 2008
Han et al. 2014 1 individual
IVPP V 18632, a nearly complete articulated skeleton of a subadult individual with integument, lacking parts of the cervical and thoracic vertebral series, the distal half of the right forelimb and the distal half of the left hindlimb.
    = Parapengornis eurycaudatus Hu et al. 2015
Hu et al. 2015
Reptilia - Longipterygidae
Shanweiniao cooperorum n. gen., n. sp. O'Connor et al. 2009
O'Connor et al. 2009 1 individual
DNHM D1878
see common names

Geography
Country:China State/province:Liaoning County:Lingyuan
Coordinates: 41.2° North, 119.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:43.8° North, 121.3° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
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
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Jehol Formation:Yixian Member:Dawangzhangzi
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "shale"
Secondary lithology: mudstone
Environment:lacustrine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,adpression,soft parts
Lagerst�tten type:conservation
Degree of concentration:dispersed
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:excellent
Articulated whole bodies:all
Fragmentation:none
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:Hao
Metadata
Database number:82783
Authorizer:M. Carrano, P. Mannion Enterer:M. Carrano, J. Tennant
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2008-08-01 13:06:03 Last modified:2023-04-28 11:06:38
Access level:the public Released:2008-08-01 13:06:03
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
27835.ETE C. Gao, L. M. Chiappe, Q. Meng, J. K. O'Connor, X. Wang, X. Cheng, and J. Liu. 2008. A new basal lineage of Early Cretaceous birds from China and its implications on the evolution of the avian tail. Palaeontology 51(4):775-791 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

49953 H. Han, Z.-H. Zhou, and J. K. O'Connor. 2014. A subadult specimen of Pengornis and character evolution in Enantiornithes. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 52(1):77-97 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant]
55440 H. Hu, J. K. O'Connor, and Z. Zhou. 2015. A new species of Pengornithidae (Aves: Enantiornithes) from the Lower Cretaceous of China suggests a specialized scansorial habitat previously unknown in early birds. Plos One 10(6):e0126791 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant]
49946 J. K. O'Connor and C. Sullivan. 2014. Reinterpretation of the Early Cretaceous maniraptoran (Dinosauria: Theropoda) Zhongornis haoae as a scanoriopterygid-like non-avian, and morphological resemblances between scansoriopterygids and basal oviraptorosaurs. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 52(1):3-30 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant/J. Tennant]
29822 J. K. O'Connor, X. Wang, L. M. Chiappe, C. Gao, Q. Meng, X. Cheng, and J. Liu. 2009. Phylogenetic support for a specialized clade of Cretaceous enantiornithine birds with information from a new species. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 29(1):188-204 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
62117 Z. H. Zhou. 2006. Evolutionary radiation of the Jehol Biota: chronological and ecological perspectives. Geological Journal 41:377-393 [M. Uhen/F. Villegas-Garin/M. Clapham]