Also known as Belye Kruchi, Longgushan, Longguchan, White Cliffs
Where: Heilongjiang, China (48.9° N, 130.2° E: paleocoordinates 50.9° N, 116.8° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Yuliangzi Formation (Jiayin Group), Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)
• "Several bone-bearing horizons have been excavated since the discovery of this site."
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; green, yellow, conglomeratic sandstone and intraclastic, green mudstone
•"an ancient fluvial environment with yellow coarse-grained channel deposits and green fine-grained floodplain deposits. Within these floodplain deposits several reddish-purple palaeosol horizons have been observed (Fig. 3D). Some of the green fine-grained deposits also contain a considerable amount of coarser lithic clasts (1 mm-6 cm). It is within these diamict layers that most of the dinosaur bones have been found."
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected by A. Kristofovich, M. Manakin, N. P. Stepanov, V. Arseniev, P. Godefroit in 1902, 1914–1917, 1925, 1975, 1977–
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,
• St. Petersburg Geological Committee. Bolotsky et al. (2014) mention that it is possible that F. Schmidt discovered this site in 1866 (as "close to Pashkovo").
Primary reference: Anonymous. 1917. Khronika i lichnyya izvestíya [Chronicle and personal information]. Ezhegodnik Russkogo Paleontologicheskogo Obshchestva 1:101-103 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 37811: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 24.03.2004, edited by Matthew Oreska and Philip Mannion
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Chelonia indet." = Testudines2
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"Aspideretes planicostatus n. sp." = Amuremys planicostata3
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"Albertosaurus periculosus n. sp." = Tarbosaurus bataar2
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Saurolophus krystofovici n. sp.4, Charonosaurus jiayinensis n. gen. n. sp.2, Hadrosaurinae indet.5, "Trachodon amurense n. sp." = Mandschurosaurus amurensis1
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Cupressinoxylon sp. Göppert 1850 |