Also known as Junggar Basin

Where: Xinjiang, China (46.1° N, 86.3° E: paleocoordinates 44.7° N, 87.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Tugulu Group, Early/Lower Cretaceous (145.5 - 99.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; poorly lithified, yellow mudstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected in 1964; reposited in the IVPP

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

Primary reference: P. C. Sereno and S. Chao. 1988. Psittacosaurus xinjiangensis (Ornithischia: Ceratopsia), a new psittacosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of northwestern China. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 8(4):353-365 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 52158: authorized by Matt Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 28.07.2005