Ningchiakou, Mengyin: Berriasian - Valanginian, China
collected by Metrens, T'an, Andersson, & Zdansky; Young & Bien 1913–1923

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Sinamiidae
Sinamia zdanskyi Stensio 1935
Young 1935
Reptilia - Testudines - Sinochelyidae
Sinochelys applanata n. gen., n. sp. Wiman 1930
Wiman 1930
Scutemys tecta Wiman 1930
Young 1935
synonym of Sinochelys applanata
Reptilia - Testudines - Sinemydidae
Sinemys lens n. gen., n. sp. Wiman 1930
Wiman 1930 7 specimens
PMU.R 1500-1506
Ordosemys leios Brinkman and Peng 1993
Li et al. 2019 1 specimen
IVPG-T001-1-4
Reptilia - Dsungaripteridae
Theropoda indet. Marsh 1881
Young 1935 1 specimen
Ulna
    = ? Dsungaripteridae indet. Young 1964
Young 1964
Reptilia
Stegosauria indet. (Marsh 1877)
Borinder et al. 2016 4 specimens
PMU 24724 (formerly PMU R275), PMU 24040/1 and PMU 24040/2: three dorsal vertebrae. PMU 24723 (formerly PMU R276): an isolated dermal spine
Dinosauria indet. (Owen 1842)
1 individual
(5 measurements)
    = Helopus zdanskyi n. gen., n. sp. Wiman 1929
Wiman 1929
recombined as Euhelopus zdanskyi
PMU 233 - holotype - exemplars a & c (partial skull [R and L premaxillae, maxillae, lacrimals, quadratojugals & palatines, L nasal, L postorbital, L squamosal, R quadrate, R pterygoid] and lower jaws [R & L dentaries, surangulars, angulars, L prearticular], 28 articulated presacral vertebrae, L scapula, L coracoid, L humerus & L femur). Accession # and whereabouts of exemplar c are unknown. (now PMU 24705)
Actinopteri - Leptolepidiformes - Leptolepididae
Lycoptera sp. Müller 1847
Young 1935
Actinopteri - Hiodontiformes - Hiodontidae
Tanichthys ningjiagouensis n. gen., n. sp. Jin 1991
Jin 1991 12 specimens
IVPP V.8948.1-12
see common names

Geography
Country:China State/province:Shandong County:Mengyin
Coordinates: 35.9° North, 118.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:36.9° North, 120.2° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Early/Lower Cretaceous
10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 1
Key time interval:Berriasian - Valanginian
Age range of interval:145.00000 - 132.60000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Mengyin
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Fossils from "lower and middle Mengyin Series". Full age range ascribed to the Mengyin Formation is Tithonian to Aptian (but see Wilson and Upchurch 2009).
Recent zircon dating has dated the Mengyin Formation to the Berriasian-Valanginian (Xu & Li, 2015)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:green,yellow sandstone
Secondary lithology:green,yellow siltstone
Lithology description: "green and yellowish sandstones, marls, silstones, and shales"
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Degree of concentration:dispersed
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Articulated whole bodies:some
Associated major elements:some
Disassociated major elements:some
Disassociated minor elements:some
Fragmentation:occasional
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,surface (float),surface (in situ),mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:Metrens, T'an, Andersson, & Zdansky; Young & Bien Collection dates:1913–1923
Collection method comments: Original discovery about 1913 by Father Metrens (Catholic priest), site rediscovered 1922 by Andersson and T'an, then excavated 1923 by Zdansky.
Metadata
Also known as:Ningjiagou, Uppsala/Geol. Survey China; Euhelopus zdanskyi type, Ning Chia Kou
Database number:47070
Authorizer:M. Carrano, P. Mannion Enterer:M. Carrano, P. Mannion
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-02-07 06:05:19 Last modified:2023-11-20 13:00:25
Access level:the public Released:2005-02-07 06:05:19
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
40224. H. C. T'an. 1923. New research on the Mesozoic and early Tertiary geology in Shantung. Geological Survey of China Bulletin 5:95-135 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

86528 N. H. Borinder, S. F. Poropat, and B. P. Kear. 2016. Reassessment of the earliest documented stegosaurian fossils from Asia. Cretaceous Research 68:61-69 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
13360ETE Z. Dong. 1992. Dinosaurian Faunas of China. China Ocean Press, Beijing 1-188 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
58575 Z. Dong. 1997. Chinese dinosaurs. In P. J. Currie & K. Padian (ed.), Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs 118-124 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
36736ETE Z. Dong. 1998. On Asiatic sauropods and their phylogenetic relationships. In A. M. G. de Carvalho, A. M. Andrade, V. F. dos Santos, J. Cascalho, R. Taborda, (eds.), I Encontro Internacional sobre Paleobiologia dos Dinossáurios. Museu Nacional de História Natural, Lisboa 79-88 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
63054 C. W. Gilmore. 1939. A review of recent progress in reptilian paleontology. Bulletin of the Geological Society of America 50:337-348 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
39693 F. Jin. 1991. [A new genus and species of Hiodontidae from Xintai, Shandong]. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 29(1):46-54 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
67740 D.-Q. Li, C.-F. Zhou, L. Li, J.-T. Yang, L. Li and M. Rabi. 2019. The sinemydid turtle Ordosemys from the Lower Cretaceous Mengyin Formation of Shandong, China and its implication for the age of the Luohandong Formation of the Ordos Basin. PeerJ 7:e6229:1-23 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
14475ETE V. Martin-Rolland. 1999. Les sauropodes chinois [The Chinese sauropods]. Revue Paléobiologie, Genève 18(1):287-315 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
62065 N. J. Mateer. 1997. Sino-Swedish expeditions. In P. J. Currie & K. Padian (ed.), Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs 662 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
19281ETE N. J. Mateer and S. G. Lucas. 1985. Swedish vertebrate palaeontology in China: a history of the Lagrelius Collection. Bulletin of the Geological Institutions of the University of Uppsala, New Series 11:1-24 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
14680ETE N. J. Mateer and J. S. McIntosh. 1985. A new reconstruction of the skull of Euhelopus zdanskyi (Saurischia: Sauropoda). Bulletin of the Geological Institutions of the University of Uppsala, New Series 11:125-132 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
47166 S. F. Poropat. 2013. Carl Wiman's sauropods: The Uppsala Museum of Evolution's collection. GFF (Geologiska Foreningen) 135(1):104-119 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant/M. Carrano]
41695 V. B. Sukhanov. 2000. Mesozoic turtles of Middle and Central Asia. In M. J. Benton, M. A. Shishkin, D. M. Unwin, & E N. Kurichkin (eds.), The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia 309-367 [R. Benson/R. Benson/M. Carrano]
38083 J. A. Wilson and P. Upchurch. 2009. Redescription and reassessment of the phylogenetic affinities of Euhelopus zdanskyi (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) from the Early Cretaceous of China. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 7(2):199-239 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/M. Carrano]
18021ETE C. Wiman. 1929. Die Kreide-Dinosaurier aus Shantung [The Cretaceous dinosaurs of Shantung]. Palaeontologia Sinica, Series C 6(1):1-67 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
44012 C. Wiman. 1930. Fossile Schildfröten aus China. Palaeontologica Sinica C 6(3):1-55 [R. Benson/R. Benson]
12536ETE C.-C. Young. 1935. Dinosaurian remains from Mengyin, Shantung. Bulletin of the Geological Society of China 14(4):519-533 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
24283ETE C.-C. Young. 1964. On a new pterosaurian from Sinkiang, China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 8(3):221-255 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]