Chaya, Sanjiang area (Jurassic to of China)

Also known as Changdu, Qamdo

Where: Xizang Autonomous Region, China (30.9° N, 97.4° E: paleocoordinates 14.1° N, 92.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Dongdaqiao Formation, Bajocian to Bajocian (170.3 - 163.5 Ma)

• Top of the lower section of the Dongdaqiao Formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; red, argillaceous siltstone

• "Purple-red medium-thick layered gravel-bearing argillaceous siltstone, with developed horizontal bedding."

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 2019

Collection methods: surface (in situ), mechanical,

Primary reference: X. An, Q. Wang, Y. Li, B. Wang, and D. Wang. 2021. [New discovery of Jurassic dinosaur fossils in Chaya area Qamdu district Tibet]. Geological Bulletin of China 40(1):189-193 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 190085: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Michael Hudgins on 27.11.2017, edited by Matthew Carrano and Philip Mannion

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet.
Theropoda indet. Marsh 1881 theropod
articulated pubes with partial femur
 Saurischia -
Eusauropoda indet.
Eusauropoda indet. Upchurch 1995 sauropod
cervical vertebra, scapula