PBDB Collection

Fengning County [general]: Hauterivian, China

List of taxa

Where & when

Geology

Taphonomy & methods

Metadata & references

Taxonomic list

Reptilia - Theropoda - Compsognathidae

	Xunmenglong yingliangis n. gen., n. sp. Xing et al. 2020	Xing et al. 2020	1 individual
	YLSNHM-00005
Reptilia - Theropoda

	Paraprotopteryx gracilis n. gen., n. sp. Zheng et al. 2007	Zheng et al. 2007	1 individual
	"from the same locality" in the "city of Fengning" as the type of Protopteryx

	Protopteryx fengningensis n. gen., n. sp. Zhang and Zhou 2000		1 individual
Reptilia - Theropoda - Hongshanornithidae

	Archaeornithura meemannae n. gen., n. sp. Wang et al. 2015	Wang et al. 2015	2 individuals
	Holotype. An articulated partial skeleton with feathers (STM7-145), housed at the Tianyu Natural History Museum of Shandong (STM), China (Fig. 1). Paratype. An articulated partial skeleton with feathers (STM7-163; Supplementary Fig. 1).
see common names

Geography

Time

Stratigraphy

Formation:	Huajiying	Member:	Sichakou
Stratigraphic resolution:	group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: "~125 mya" based on dates of Swisher 2002 (i.e., late Barremian or early Aptian) according to Zheng et al. 2007 'Sichakou sedimentary member’ A weighted mean age of 130.7 Ma was reported using 40Ar/39Ar dating of the K-feldspars samples from the interbedded tuffs about 6m below the Protopteryx-bearing layer7, largely consistent with previous results using the SHRIMP U-Pb method31

Lithology and environment

Primary lithology:	tuffaceous siltstone
Includes fossils?	Y
Environment:	lacustrine indet.
Geology comments: not discussed

Taphonomy

Modes of preservation:	body,adpression,soft parts
Size of fossils:	macrofossils
Articulated whole bodies:	all
Associated major elements:	none
Disassociated major elements:	none
Disassociated minor elements:	none

Collection methods and comments

Collection methods:	selective quarrying,field collection
Reason for describing collection:	taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:	IVPP
Collection method comments: The two specimens (STM7-145, 7-163) of A. meemannae were acquired by the Tianyu Natural History Museum of Shandong from a fossil dealer. The dealer confirmed that the fossils were collected from the same locality of the holotype of Protopteryx fengningensis (IVPP V11665) in Sichakou basin of Fengning Country, Hebei Province, northeastern China.
Taxonomic list comments:no indication as to whether other taxa are present

Metadata

Also known as:	Protopteryx type, Fengning City
Database number:	68022
Authorizer:	J. Alroy, P. Mannion, M. Carrano	Enterer:	J. Alroy, J. Tennant, M. Carrano
Modifier:	M. Carrano	Research group:	paleoentomology,vertebrate
Created:	2006-12-24 20:05:46	Last modified:	2021-11-30 13:51:11
Access level:	the public	Released:	2006-12-24 20:05:46
Creative Commons license:	CC BY

Reference information

Primary reference:

F. Zhang and Z. Zhou. 2000. A primitive enantiornithine bird and the origin of feathers. Science 290:1955-1959 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]

Secondary references:

55248		M. Wang, X. Zheng, J. K. O'Connor, G. T. Lloyd, X. Wang, Y. Wang, X. Shang and Z. Zhou. 2015. The oldest record of Ornithuromorpha from the Early Cretaceous of China. Nature Communications 6(6987) [P. Mannion/J. Tennant/M. Carrano]
78778		L. Xing, T. Miyashita, D. Wang, K. Niu, and P. J. Currie. 2020. A new compsognathid theropod dinosaur from the oldest assemblage of the Jehol Biota in the Lower Cretaceous Huajiying Formation, northeastern China. Cretaceous Research 107:104285 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
34920		X. W. Zhang, D. Ren, H. Pang and C.K. Shih. 2009. Late Mesozoic chresmodids with forewing from Inner Mongolia, China (Polyneoptera: Archaeorthoptera). Acta Geologica Sinica 84:38-46 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
28708		X. Zheng, Z. Zhang, and L. Hou. 2007. A new enantiornithine bird with four long rectrices from the Early Cretaceous of northern Hebei, China. Acta Geologica Sinica 81(5):703-708 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]