Also known as Junggar
Where: Xinjiang, China (44.8° N, 90.0° E: paleocoordinates 42.7° N, 104.0° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Upper Member (Shishugou Formation), Early/Lower Oxfordian (161.2 - 155.7 Ma)
• upper part of formation
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coarse channel fill; coarse-grained, red sandstone and red, white, yellow, sandy siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Z. Dong, Sino-Canadian Dinosaur Project in 1987–1990; reposited in the IVPP
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ), mechanical,
Primary reference: D. A. Russell and Z. Zheng. 1990. The 1989 field season of the Dinosaur Project. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 28(4):322 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 36569: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 04.02.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Mamenchisaurus sinocanadorum n. sp.
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