Wucaiwan ceratopsian 2 (IVPP): Oxfordian, China
collected 2002
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Chaoyangsauridae
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Hualianceratops wucaiwanensis n. gen., n. sp.
Han et al. 2015
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1 individual | |||||||||
| IVPP V18641, partial skeleton | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | China | State/province: | Xinjiang |
| Coordinates: | 45.2° North, 88.9° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 46.8° North, 91.3° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||
| Geographic resolution: | local area |
Time
| Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Late/Upper Jurassic |
| Stage: | Oxfordian | 10 m.y. bin: | Jurassic 5 |
| Key time interval: | Oxfordian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 161.50000 - 154.80000 m.y. ago | ||
| Age estimate: | 159.7 ± 0.3 to 162.2 ± 0.2 Ma (Ar/Ar) |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Shishugou | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: upper part of formation, "in the same part of the Shishugou Formation as Yinlong, between “big white” and tuff 4" | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | "shale" |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "fluvial mudstones" | |
| Environment: | fluvial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Degree of concentration: | dispersed |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
| Fragmentation: | occasional |
| Feeding/predation traces: | fractures |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
| Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,mechanical,field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | IVPP | Collection dates: | 2002 |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Hualianceratops type site | ||
| Database number: | 175359 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2015-12-10 13:08:35 | Last modified: | 2021-02-02 12:48:21 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2015-12-10 13:08:35 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 57331. | F. Han, C. A. Forster, J. M. Clark and X. Xu. 2015. A new taxon of basal ceratopsian from China and the early evolution of Ceratopsia. PLoS ONE 10(12):e0143369:1-23 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |