Houei-Sang-Hok: Aptian - Albian, Laos
collected by J.-H. Hoffet 1938

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Gonyomya sp.
Trigonia sp. Bruguière 1789
    = Trigonoides sp.
Hoffett 1937
3 spp.
Reptilia
Camarasauridae indet. Cope 1877
1 specimen
ilium
    = Titanosaurus sp. Lydekker 1877
Hoffett 1937
nomen dubium belonging to Titanosauria
Reptilia - Hadrosauridae
Hadrosauridae indet. Cope 1869
Hoffet 1943
pelvis, caudals, skull fragments
Hadrosauridae indet. Cope 1869
5 specimens
3 femora, ilium, coracoid
    = Mandchurosaurus sp. Riabinin 1930
Hoffett 1937
    = Mandschurosaurus laosensis n. sp. Hoffet 1943
Hoffet 1943
nomen dubium belonging to Mandschurosaurus
cf. Mandschurosaurus laosensis Hoffet 1943
Hoffet 1943 6 specimens
nomen dubium belonging to Mandschurosaurus
2 cervical vertebrae, 3 sacrals, 2 caudals
Reptilia
Stegosauria indet. Marsh 1877
1 specimen
dermal spine
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Ceratomyidae
Myopholas sp. Douvillé 1908
Bivalvia - Unionida - Unionidae
Plicatounio sp. Kobayashi and Suzuki 1936
Hoffett 1937
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758
see common names

Geography
Country:Laos State/province:Savannakhet
Coordinates: 16.7° North, 105.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:17.5° North, 112.4° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Early/Lower Cretaceous
Key time interval:Aptian - Albian
Age range of interval:121.40000 - 100.50000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Grès supérieurs
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: approx. equivalent to the Khok Kruat Fm.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Degree of concentration:dispersed
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:medium
Fragmentation:extreme
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,surface (in situ),mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collectors:J.-H. Hoffet Collection dates:1938
Metadata
Also known as:Ban-Tung-Vat, Muong Phalane
Database number:130271
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2012-07-06 06:06:17 Last modified:2023-01-13 10:34:34
Access level:the public Released:2012-07-06 06:06:17
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

42220. J.-H. Hoffett. 1936. Découverte du Crétacé en Indochine [Discovery of the Cretaceous in Indochina]. Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Seances de l'Académie des Sciences 202:1867-1869 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

34142ETE J.-H. Hoffet. 1943. Description des ossements les plus caractéristiques appartenant à des Avipelviens du Sénonien du Bas-Laos [Description of the most characteristic bones belonging to bird-hipped dinosaurs from the Senonian of Lower Laos]. Comptes Rendus des Séances du Conseil des Recherches Scientifiques de l'Indochine 1944:179-186 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
42222 J.-H. Hoffett. 1937. Sur le Crétacé du Bas-Laos [On the Cretaceous of Lower Laos]. Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Seances de l'Académie des Sciences 204:1439-1441 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
83628 S. Manitkoon, U. Deesri, P. Warapeang, T. Nonsrirach, and P. Chanthasit. 2023. Ornithischian dinosaurs in Southeast Asia: a review with palaeobiogeographic implications. Fossil Record 26(1):1-25 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
61518 D. B. Weishampel and J. B. Weishampel. 1983. Annotated localities of ornithopod dinosaurs: implications to Mesozoic paleobiogeography. The Mosasaur 1:43-87 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]