Also known as Chaoyang
Where: Liaoning, China (41.4° N, 120.0° E: paleocoordinates 44.6° N, 120.1° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: 2 Member (Jiufotang Formation), Aptian (125.0 - 113.0 Ma)
• "Nearly all the specimens from this locality (Bolouchi) were collected from a layer... about 60 cm" (the exception is Eocathayornis walkeri). Xidagou Bed = 2nd Member of Fm.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lacustrine; gray, blue mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression, adpression
Collected by Z. Zhou in 1990; reposited in the IVPP
Collection methods: salvage, quarrying,
• Chaoyangia specimen from spoils pile of quarry
Primary reference: Z.-h. Zhou, F. Jin, and J.-y. Zhang. 1992. [Preliminary report on a Mesozoic bird from Liaoning, China]. Kexue Tongbao 1992(5):435-437 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 79517: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 11.03.2008, edited by Roger Benson
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Songlingornis linghensis n. gen. n. sp.1
Songlingornis linghensis n. gen. n. sp.1 Hou 1997 bird IVPP V10913 (holotype) (partial postcranial skeleton)
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Chaoyangia beishanensis n. gen. n. sp.2
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"Cathayornis yandica n. gen. n. sp." = Cathayornis yandica, "Largirostrornis sexdentornis n. gen. n. sp." = Cathayornis yandica1, "Cathayornis caudatus n. sp." = Houornis caudatus1
"Cathayornis yandica n. gen. n. sp." = Cathayornis yandica Zhou et al. 1992 bird Hou (1997) states over 30 avian specimens from Boluochi, most of which belong to Cathayornis (pp. 2 and 68 of translation)
"Largirostrornis sexdentornis n. gen. n. sp." = Cathayornis yandica1 Zhou et al. 1992 bird IVPP 10531 (holotype)
"Cathayornis caudatus n. sp." = Houornis caudatus1 Hou 1997 bird IVPP V10917(holotype), V10533, V10904
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Boluochia zhengi n. gen. n. sp.3
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Longchengornis sanyanensis n. gen. n. sp.1
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