Ban Saphan Hin (Cretaceous of Thailand)

Where: Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand (14.9° N, 102.7° E: paleocoordinates 13.6° N, 113.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Khok Kruat Formation, Aptian (125.0 - 113.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; calcareous conglomerate

• "calcareous conglomerate"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected in 2004

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

Primary reference: N. Boonchai, P. J. Grote, and P. Jintasakul. 2009. Paleontological parks and museums and prominent fossil sites in Thailand and their importance in the conservation of fossils. In J. H. Lipps & B. R. C. Granier (ed.), PaleoParks - The Protection and Conservation of Fossil Sites Worldwide. Carnets de GĂ©ologie/Notebooks on Geology, Book 2009/03, Brest Chapter 07:75-95 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 99337: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 08.11.2010, edited by Philip Mannion

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Hybodontiformes - Hybodontidae
Thaiodus ruchae5 Cappetta et al. 1990 elasmobranch
Heteroptychodus steinmanni5 Yabe and Obata 1930 elasmobranch
Gnathostomata
  -
Osteichthyes indet. bony fish
"fish scales"
Reptilia
 Testudines - Adocidae
Shachemys sp.2 Kuznetsov 1976 turtle
Shachemys sp.5 Kuznetsov 1976 turtle
 Testudines - Carettochelyidae
Kizylkumemys khoratensis n. sp.3 Tong et al. 2005 turtle
NRRU A1861 - type
 Testudines - Trionychidae
Trionychidae indet. Gray 1825 softshell turtle
"soft-shelled turtles"
 Loricata -
Eusuchia indet.5 crocodilian
Eusuchia indet.5 crocodilian
"gavial skull"
Khoratosuchus jintasakuli n. gen. n. sp.4 Lauprasert et al. 2009 crocodilian
NNRU-A 1803 - holotype (partial skull represented by part of maxillae, part of nasals, lacrimals, prefrontals, frontal, postorbitals, squamosals, parietal, quadrates, occiput, palatines and part of pterygoids)
 Ornithischia -
Sirindhorna khoratensis n. gen. n. sp.6, Siamodon nimngami n. gen. n. sp.6
Sirindhorna khoratensis n. gen. n. sp.6 Shibata et al. 2015 ornithopod
"preliminarily classified"
Siamodon nimngami n. gen. n. sp.6 Buffetaut and Suteethorn 2011 ornithopod
"preliminarily classified"; PRC-4 (holotype), nearly complete left maxilla; PRC-5, isolated maxillary tooth; PRC-6, braincase; WNM-Sp-001, dentary tooth
 Theropoda - Dromaeosauridae
? Dromaeosauridae indet. Colbert and Russell 1969 maniraptoran
"preliminarily classified"
 Theropoda - Ornithomimidae
? Ornithomimidae indet. Marsh 1890 ornithomimid
"preliminarily classified"
 Theropoda - Tyrannosauridae
? Tyrannosauridae indet. Osborn 1906 tyrannosaurid
"preliminarily classified"
 Saurischia -
? Sauropoda indet. sauropod
"preliminarily classified"
 Saurischia - Euhelopodidae
? Phuwiangosaurus sp. Martin et al. 1994 euhelopodid
"preliminarily classified"
Actinopteri
 Lepisosteiformes -
cf. Lanxangichthys sp.1 Cavin et al. 2019 gar
Isolated skull material: associated frontal andparietal (NRRU-A 110.1/2 and NRRU-A 110.2/2, partand counterpart), right frontal (NRRU-A 612), dermopter-otic (NRRU-A 611), circumorbital bones (NRRU-ZY3011, NRRU-BM-4003), left preopercle (NRRU-CY-6002), opercle (NRRU-A 2437), subopercle (NRRU-V-3005) and extrascapular (NRRU-A 1040). Articulatedpostcranial material (Fig. 5): part (NRRU-A 2435.1-2)and counterpart (NRRU-A 2435.4) of the posterior portionof a fish