Where: Xinjiang, China (45.2° N, 88.9° E: paleocoordinates 46.8° N, 91.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Member (Shishugou Formation), Oxfordian (163.5 - 157.3 Ma)

• Upper part of formation; "The type locality is positioned between two tuffs (T-2 and T-BW of [20]) and can thereby be dated securely to the early Oxfordian."

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the IVPP

Primary reference: W. G. Joyce, M. Rabi, J. M. Clark and X. Xu. 2016. A toothed turtle from the Late Jurassic of China and the global biogeographic history of turtles. BMC Evolutionary Biology 16(236):1-29 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 182495: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 02.11.2016

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