Also known as Wukongopterus, Darwinopterus type locality, Linglengta

Where: Liaoning, China (40.9° N, 120.0° E: paleocoordinates 42.1° N, 123.2° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Tiaojishan Formation, Late/Upper Bathonian to Late/Upper Bathonian (167.7 - 150.8 Ma)

• Wang et al. (2009) referred to this locality as from the Daohugou Formation (?Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous), while Lü et al. (2009) suggested that it is the Tiaojishan Formation (Middle Jurassic).

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•"The Tiaojishan Formation is generally regarded as Middle (Zhang & Zheng 1991; Liu et al. 2006; Cheng & Li 2007) to Upper Jurassic (Chang et al. 2009) (Late Bathonian-Early Kimmeridgian) in age, although it may date to the early Middle Jurassic (Aalenian) in Jianchang County (Davis et al. 2001). The unit has been dated using radiometric techniques at 169-152 Mya by Liu et al. (2006) and 165-156 Mya by Zhang et al. (2008)." (Lü et al. 2010: supplement)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; tuffaceous, gray sandstone and gray, green mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression, soft parts

Reposited in the IVPP

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ), mechanical,

• ZMNH: Zhejiang Museum of Natural History. YH: Yizhou Museum, Yixian, Liaoning.

•PMOL: Paleontological Museum of Liaoning, Shenyang Normal University.

•Fossils collected primarily by local farmers

•The heterodontosaurid ornithischian Tianyulong was originally reported to be from the Yixian Formation (Early Cretaceous) of Jianchang County, but is now believed to be from Linglongta (Lü et al. 2011: supplementary data)

Primary reference: X. Wang, A. W. A. Kellner, S. Jiang and X. Meng. 2009. An unusual long-tailed pterosaur with elongated neck from western Liaoning of China. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 81(4):793-812 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 92421: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 11.11.2009, edited by John Alroy, Matthew Carrano, Jonathan Tennant and Emma Dunne

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