0.6 mi. west of Ningchiakou (Cretaceous to of China)

Also known as Ningjiagou, Uppsala/Geol. Survey China; Euhelopus exemplar b, Ning Chia Kou

Where: Shandong, China (35.9° N, 118.0° E: paleocoordinates 36.9° N, 120.2° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Mengyin Formation, Berriasian to Berriasian (145.0 - 132.9 Ma)

• fossils from "lower and middle parts of the Meng-yin series." Age represents the full range ascribed to the Mengyin Formation (see Wilson and Upchurch 2009)

•Recent zircon dating has dated the Mengyin Formation to the Berriasian-Valanginian (Xu & Li, 2015)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; green, yellow sandstone and green, yellow siltstone

• "green and yellowish sandstones, marls, silstones, and shales"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Zdansky in 1923

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ), mechanical,

Primary reference: H. C. T'an. 1923. New research on the Mesozoic and early Tertiary geology in Shantung. Geological Survey of China Bulletin 5:95-135 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 62326: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 18.07.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Saurischia - Euhelopodidae
"Helopus zdanskyi" = Euhelopus zdanskyi
"Helopus zdanskyi" = Euhelopus zdanskyi Wiman 1929 euhelopodid
PMU 234 - exemplar b (9 articulated dorsal vertebrae and sacrum, 2 dorsal ribs, nearly complete pelvis & R hindlimb lacking metatarsal V & several pedal phalanges) (now PMU 24706)