ammonites
Pingfengshan (Jurassic of China)

Where: Xinjiang, China (45.1° N, 89.0° E: paleocoordinates 46.6° N, 91.2° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Shishugou Formation (Qigu Group), Oxfordian (161.2 - 155.7 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; fine-grained, red siliciclastic sediments

• "lacustrine deposits"
• "fine-grained redbeds"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by SCDP in 1984-1989; reposited in the IVPP

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: D. A. Russell and Z. Zheng. 1990. The 1989 field season of the Dinosaur Project. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 28(4):322 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 46974: authorized by Matt Carrano, entered by Matt Carrano on 27.01.2005, edited by Jonathan Tennant

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