Phu Wat Site A1 (Cretaceous of Thailand)

Also known as Nong Sang

Where: Nong Bua Lamphu, Thailand (16.9° N, 102.5° E: paleocoordinates 14.6° N, 111.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Sao Khua Formation (Khorat Group), Late/Upper Barremian (130.0 - 125.5 Ma)

• Sao Khua Formation, probably upper Barremian?, Lower Cretaceous. The formation was originally considered Jurassic in age, but it was later shown to be in the Early Cretaceous. Buffetaut and Suteethorn (1999) were the first to suggest an Early Cretaceous age based on the vertebrate fossils. Most recently, the age was constrained to the late Barremian based on non-marine bivalves (Tumpeesawan et al. 2010)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; red claystone and sandstone

• The Khorat Group of north-eastern Thailand consists of red clay, sandstone, and conglomerate, indicating deposition in a floodplain with meandering rivers.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Paladej Srisuk in 1988

Collection methods: surface (in situ), mechanical,

Primary reference: A. Samathi, P. Chanthasit, and P. M. Sander. 2019. Two new basal coelurosaurian theropod dinosaurs from the Lower Cretaceous Sao Khua Formation of Thailand. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 64(2):239-260 [R. Butler/E. Dunne/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 201909: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Emma Dunne on 10.06.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Theropoda -
Vayuraptor nongbualamphuensis n. gen. n. sp. Samathi et al. 2019 coelurosaur
Holotype: SM-NB A1-2, left tibia with associated astragalocalcaneum. Referred material:—PRC-NB A1-11, right coracoids; PRC- NB A1-4, fibula fragment; PRC-NB A1-10 rib; PRC- NB A1-3, probable pubis fragment; PRC-NB A2-20, manual phalanx, and PRC-NB A2-16, probable pedal phalanx