Shuantang, Tiantai (Liangtoutang Fm.): Albian, China
collected 2002

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Testudoolithidae
Testudoolithus jiangi
Jackson et al. 2008 4 specimens
(ZMNH M8713; ES137, ES142, ES143
Reptilia - Elongatoolithidae
Macroelongatoolithus xixiaensis (Wang and Zhou 1995)
4 specimens
synonym of Macroelongatoolithus carlylei
ZJMN M8704; TM 005; FPDM-V-155 to 159; ES-116, 1-5
see common names

Geography
Country:China State/province:Zhejiang County:Tiantai
Coordinates: 29.2° North, 121.1° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:36.3° North, 120.0° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Early/Lower Cretaceous
Stage:Albian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 4
Key time interval:Albian
Age range of interval:113.00000 - 100.50000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Qujiang Formation:Liangtoutang
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:red sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:lacustrine - small
Geology comments: shallow lacustrine deposits
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Spatial orientation:life position
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Associated major elements:some
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,surface (in situ),peel or thin section,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection dates:2002
Metadata
Also known as:Shuangtang
Database number:86428
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2009-02-02 11:25:16 Last modified:2019-09-17 13:29:41
Access level:the public Released:2009-02-02 11:25:16
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

24172.ETE X. Jin, Y. Azuma, F. D. Jackson and D. J. Varricchio. 2007. Giant dinosaur eggs from the Tiantai basin, Zhejiang province, China. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 44:81-88 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

29116ETE F. D. Jackson, Z. Jin, D. J. Varricchio, Y. Azuma, and Y. Jiang. 2008. The first in situ turtle clutch from the Cretaceous Tiantai Basin, Zhejiang Province, China. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 28(2):319-325 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
70244 D. J. Simon, D. J. Varricchio, Z. Jin and S. F. Robison. 2019. Microstructural overlap of Macroelongatoolithus eggs from Asia and North America expands the occurrence of colossal oviraptorosaurs. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 38(6):e1553046:1-16 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]