Tashuikou (Cretaceous of China)

Also known as Chilantai, Jilantai, Dashuigou, Tao-Suei-Gou

Where: Nei Mongol, China (40.3° N, 105.9° E: paleocoordinates 41.5° N, 97.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Ulansuhai Formation (Dashuigou Group), Turonian (93.9 - 89.8 Ma)

• overlies Suhongtu Fm.; Faunal assignment to Aptian-Albian, but dating of underlying beds suggests maximum age is Turonian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by SSPE in 1959-1960; reposited in the IVPP

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: S.-Y. Hu. 1964. [Carnosaurian remains from Alashan, Inner Mongolia]. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 8(1):42-63 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 66925: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 24.10.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Dinosauria -
Dinosauria indet. Owen 1842 dinosaur
IVPP V.2564.6, small caudal vertebra
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet. Marsh 1881 theropod
tooth
 Theropoda - Neovenatoridae
Chilantaisaurus tashuikouensis n. gen. n. sp. Hu 1964 allosauroid
IVPP V.2884.1-7
 Saurischia -
Sauropoda indet. Marsh 1878 sauropod
IVPP V.2884, large caudal vertebra