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)
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•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
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
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"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)
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