Tungkou, Chinkangkou, Laiyang (Cretaceous of China)

Also known as Jingangkou, Chingkangkou, Chingkankou

Where: Shandong, China (36.9° N, 120.7° E: paleocoordinates 37.3° N, 111.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Jingangkou Formation (Wangshi Group), Campanian (83.6 - 72.1 Ma)

• upper part of series

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; red claystone and sandstone

• "red clays" between sandstone bands

Size class: mesofossils

Collected by Liu, Wang, Young in 1952; reposited in the IVPP

Primary reference: C.-C. Young. 1954. Fossil reptilian eggs from Laiyang, Shantung, China. Scientia Sinica 3(4):505-522 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 80114: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 04.04.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Ovaloolithidae
"Oolithes chinkangkouensis" = Ovaloolithus chinkangkouensis, "Oolithes chinkangkouensis" = Ovaloolithus chinkangkouensis
"Oolithes chinkangkouensis" = Ovaloolithus chinkangkouensis Chao and Chiang 1974 ornithopod
some fragments from IVPP V734
"Oolithes chinkangkouensis" = Ovaloolithus chinkangkouensis Chao and Chiang 1974 ornithopod
IVPP V736
 Theropoda - Elongatoolithidae
"Oolithes elongatus n. sp." = Elongatoolithus elongatus
"Oolithes elongatus n. sp." = Elongatoolithus elongatus Young 1954 theropod
IVPP V734