Also known as Yinlong type site

Where: Xinjiang, China (45.2° N, 88.9° E: paleocoordinates 46.6° N, 91.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

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

• upper part of formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 2005; reposited in the IVPP

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: X. Xu, C. A. Forster, J. M. Clark and J. Mo. 2006. A basal ceratopsian with transitional features from the Late Jurassic of northwestern China. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 273:2135-2140 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 72107: authorized by Matt Carrano, entered by Matt Carrano on 24.05.2007