Yusuri site, horizon A (Cretaceous to of South Korea)

Where: Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea (35.2° N, 128.1° E: paleocoordinates 43.1° N, 126.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Hasandong Formation (Shindong Group), Late/Upper Aptian to Late/Upper Aptian (122.5 - 109.0 Ma)

• Previously, a Hauterivian-Barremian age for the Hasandong Formation was proposed, based on palynomorph assemblages (Choi, 1985; Choi, 1989; Yi et al. 1994). However, molluscan faunas suggest and Aptian-Albian age (Yang 1982) and Lee et al. 2018 SHRIMP and U-pb analyses provided a maximum depositional age of approximately 118+/-2.6Ma. The youngest detrital zircon ages were approximately 109Ma (Lee et al. 2010)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; gray, green, sandy, calcareous shale

• Greenish gray sandy shale with intercalated calcareous nodules in the lower part.

Size class: mesofossils

Collection methods: isolated tooth

Primary reference: E.-J. Park, S.-Y. Yank, and P. J. Currie. 2000. Early Cretaceous dinosaur teeth of Korea. In Y.-N. Lee (ed.), 2000 International Dinosaur Symposium for Kosong County in Korea. Paleontological Society of Korea Special Publication 4:85-98 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 52857: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 24.08.2005, edited by Matthew Carrano

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet. Marsh 1881 theropod
KPE 8005