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
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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
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Dracochelys bicuspis n. gen. n. sp.1
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