east of Qitai-Ertai road (SCDP) (Jurassic of China)

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

• "coarse, rusty red channel sandstone in a 200 m sequence of pinkish-buff sands and silts"

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

Reptilia
 Saurischia - Mamenchisauridae
Mamenchisaurus sinocanadorum n. sp. Russell and Zheng 1994 mamenchisaurid
IVPP 87004