Huangnitan (Cretaceous to of China)

Where: Xinjiang, China (45.0° N, 88.9° E: paleocoordinates 43.8° N, 89.9° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Tugulu Group, Valanginian to Valanginian (139.8 - 100.5 Ma)

• The locality is at the base of a localized series of cliffs at the west end of an ephemeral lakebed just south of Saquihe. The locality is located in fluvial–lacustrine beds of the Tugulu Group.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: D. B. Brinkman. 2001. New material of Dracochelys (Eucryptodira: Sinemydidae) from the Junggar Basin, Xinjiang, People’s Republic of China. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 38:1645-1651 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 61095: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 29.05.2006

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines - Sinemydidae
Dracochelys bicuspis Gaffney and Ye 1992 turtle