Wuerho, IVPP site 64045 (Cretaceous to of China)

Where: Xinjiang, China (46.1° N, 85.7° E: paleocoordinates 45.0° N, 81.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lianmuqin Formation (Tugulu Group), Late/Upper Aptian to Late/Upper Aptian (122.5 - 100.5 Ma)

• lower part of formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• "Tugulu Group deposition took place in and around a large inland lake that formed in the Junggur basin under a subtropical to tropical climate" (Lucas, 2001).

• "gray sandy mudstones and light green-gray sandstones"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1964; reposited in the IVPP

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

Primary reference: Z. Dong. 1973. [Cretaceous stratigraphy of Wuerho district, Dsungar Basin]. Reports of Paleontological Expedition to Sinkiang (II): Pterosaurian Fauna from Wuerho, Sinkiang. Memoirs of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Academia Sinica 11:1-7 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 49819: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 27.04.2005, edited by Roger Benson

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines - Sinemydidae
Dracochelys bicuspis n. gen. n. sp.1
Dracochelys bicuspis n. gen. n. sp.1 Gaffney and Ye 1992 turtle
IVPP V4075 skull
 Pterosauria - Dsungaripteridae
Noripterus complicidens n. gen. n. sp.2 Young 1973 pterosaur
Dsungaripterus weii2 Young 1964 pterosaur
 Plesiosauria -
Plesiosauria indet.3 de Blainville 1835 plesiosaur
 Plesiosauria - Pliosauridae
Sinopliosaurus weiyuanensis3 Young 1944 plesiosaur