Tebch, SCDP (Cretaceous to of China)

Where: Nei Mongol, China (41.5° N, 107.0° E: paleocoordinates 42.5° N, 108.6° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Barremian to Barremian (129.4 - 122.5 Ma)

• lower unit of unnamed formation; 40Ar/39Ar dating yeields age of 110.59±0.52 Ma for overlying basalt

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; gray marl and red, sandy siltstone

• "thin, lateraly extensive beds of granuitic sandstone (poorly sorted) with trough cross-stratification; thin beds of light-red to pink sandy siltstone; and thick beds (> 1 m) of laminated grey-green shale, claystone, and marl." Sample from "grey marl".

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Collected in 1990

Collection methods: bulk, quarrying,

Primary reference: D. A. Eberth, D. A. Russell, D. R. Braman and A. L. Deino. 1994. The age of the dinosaur-bearing sediments at Tebch, Inner Mongolia, People's Republic of China. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 30(10-11):2101-2106 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 46975: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 27.01.2005

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unclassified
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Yanjiestheria sp., ? Eoestheria sp., Cycadophyta indet.
Cycadophyta indet. Bessey 1907