Xiaosanjiazi Village, Lamadong (Cretaceous to of China)

Also known as Jianchang

Where: Liaoning, China (40.7° N, 119.7° E: paleocoordinates 43.2° N, 121.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Yixian Formation (Jehol Group), Late/Upper Barremian to Late/Upper Barremian (130.0 - 122.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; gray lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression, soft parts

Collected by H. Zhu, Q. Wang

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

• Made available for study by Ms. Zhu Haifen, Henan Geological Museum. Ningyuansaurus in the Xingcheng Confuciusornis Museum and donated by Mr. Wang Qiuwu.

Primary reference: J. -C. Lü, H. -Y. Pu, L. Xu, Y. Wu, and X. Wei. 2012. Largest toothed pterosaur skull from the Early Cretaceous Yixian Formation of western Liaoning, China, with comments on the family Boreopteridae. Acta Geological Sinica 86(2):287-293 [R. Benson/R. Benson/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 127186: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 02.05.2012, edited by Jonathan Tennant, Matthew Carrano and Graeme Lloyd

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Plantae indet.1
ovules, "unknown plant seeds" within the body cavity of Ningyuansaurus.
Reptilia
 Pterosauria - Boreopteridae
Moganopterus zhuiana n. gen. n. sp.
Moganopterus zhuiana n. gen. n. sp. Lü et al. 2012 pterosaur
Henan Geological Museum 41HIII0419, skull and three cervical vertebrae
 Theropoda - Dromaeosauridae
Zhenyuanlong suni n. gen. n. sp.2
Zhenyuanlong suni n. gen. n. sp.2 Lü and Brusatte 2015 maniraptoran
JPM-0008
 Theropoda -
Ningyuansaurus wangi n. gen. n. sp.1
Ningyuansaurus wangi n. gen. n. sp.1 Ji et al. 2012 maniraptoran
Near complete skeleton, no specimen number designated, Xingcheng Confuciusornis Museum