Sinraptor type, Jiangjunmiao NE (CCDP): Oxfordian, China
collected by CCDP 1987-1988
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Metriacanthosauridae
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Sinraptor dongi n. gen., n. sp.
Currie and Zhao 1994
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Currie and Zhao 1994 | 1 individual | ||||||||
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| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | China | State/province: | Xinjiang |
| Coordinates: | 44.8° North, 90.0° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 42.8° North, 100.7° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Late/Upper Jurassic |
| Stage: | Oxfordian | 10 m.y. bin: | Jurassic 5 |
| Key time interval: | Oxfordian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 161.50000 - 154.80000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | sandstone |
| Secondary lithology: | mudstone |
| Lithology description: "sandstones, siltstones, mudstones, and minor lenses of limestone" | |
| Environment: | fluvial indet. |
| Geology comments: "laid down in alluvial, fluvial, or lacustrine environments...wide, shallow, meandering, mixed-load streams of low gradient." | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Degree of concentration: | dispersed |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | excellent |
| Articulated whole bodies: | all |
| Fragmentation: | occasional |
| Encrustation: | none |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
| Spatial resolution: | autochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,mechanical,field collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
| Museum repositories: | IVPP | ||
| Collectors: | CCDP | Collection dates: | 1987-1988 |
Metadata
| Database number: | 45192 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2004-10-13 14:02:53 | Last modified: | 2021-03-26 12:41:41 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-10-13 14:02:53 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 13360. | ETE | Z. Dong. 1992. Dinosaurian Faunas of China. China Ocean Press, Beijing 1-188 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 32652 | ETE | P. J. Currie. 2006. On the quadrate of Sinraptor dongi (Theropoda: Allosauroidea) from the Late Jurassic of China. In Z. Csiki (ed.), Mesozoic and Cenozoic Vertebrates and Paleoenvironments: Tributes to the Career of Professor Dan Grigorescu. University of Bucharest, Bucharest 111-115 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 9255 | P. J. Currie and X.-J. Zhao. 1994. A new carnosaur (Dinosauria, Theropoda) from the Jurassic of Xinjiang, People's Republic of China. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 30(10-11):2037-2081 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |