1 km southwest of Quantou railway station (Cretaceous to of China)

Where: Liaoning, China (42.9° N, 124.2° E: paleocoordinates 47.8° N, 121.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Quantou Formation, Aptian to Aptian (125.0 - 100.5 Ma)

• "early-middle Late Cretaceous"

•Li et al. 2012 detrital zircon dates obtained 103Ma as the youngest depositional age

•upper part of second member of formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: K. Carpenter and K. Alf. 1994. Global distribution of dinosaur eggs, nests, and babies. In K. Carpenter, K. F. Hirsch, and J. R. Horner (eds.), Dinosaur Eggs and Babies, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 13-30 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 153394: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 13.12.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Spheroolithidae
Spheroolithus quantouensis n. sp.2 Zhang 2022 ornithopod
DLNHM D154
Spheroolithus spheroides1 Young 1954 ornithopod