Hongpo, Chishuigou (IVPP) (Cretaceous of China)

Where: Henan, China (33.3° N, 111.5° E: paleocoordinates 31.1° N, 102.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Liuyemiao Formation, Campanian (83.6 - 72.1 Ma)

• equivalent to Sigou Fm.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1979; reposited in the IVPP

Collection methods: surface (in situ), mechanical,

Primary reference: Z.-K. Zhao. 1994. In K. Carpenter, K. F. Hirsch, and J. R. Horner (eds.), Dinosaur Eggs and Babies, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. In K. Carpenter, K. F. Hirsch, and J. R. Horner (eds.), Dinosaur Eggs and Babies, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 184-203 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 65402: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 21.09.2006

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
  - Dictyoolithidae
Dictyoolithus hongpoensis n. gen. n. sp. Zhao 1994 dinosaur
IVPP RV 94001 (field no. 79001)