Where: Guangdong, China (23.2° N, 113.3° E)
• Paleocoordinates: 21.5° N, 123.0° E (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Sanshui Formation, Cenomanian to Cenomanian (100.5 - 83.6 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; gray, calcareous sandstone
Size class: mesofossils
Collected in 1976
Collection methods: quarrying,
• found by workers at the Guangzhou Iron & Steel plant
Primary reference: Anonymous. 1979. [The first discovery of dinosaur eggs in the “red-beds” of Canton (Guangzhou)]. Mesozoic and Cenozoic Red Beds of South China: Selected Papers from the "Cretaceous-Tertiary Workshop" 341 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 188428: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 31.08.2017
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
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"Paraspheroolithus sp." = Spheroolithus
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