ammonites
Ganzhou City (Cretaceous of China)

Where: Jiangxi, China (25.8° N, 114.9° E: paleocoordinates 25.9° N, 108.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Nanxiong Formation, Maastrichtian (70.6 - 65.5 Ma)

• "The red beds exposed in the Hongcheng Basin are normally correlated with the Upper Cretaceous Nanxiong Formation"

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

• "The red beds exposed in the Hongcheng Basin are normally correlated with the Upper Cretaceous Nanxiong Formation"

Size class: macrofossils

• skull holotype IVPP V 16896

Collected by Anonymous; reposited in the IVPP

• "The specimen was acquired from an amateur collector who is not willing to reveal his identity"

Primary reference: X. Xu and F.-L. Han. 2010. A new oviraptorid dinosaur (Theropoda: Oviraptorosauria) from the Upper Cretaceous of China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 48(1):11-18 [M. Carrano/M. Oreska/M. Carrano] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 97945: authorized by Matt Carrano, entered by Matthew Oreska on 09.09.2010, edited by Jonathan Tennant