ammonites
Wuerho (IVPP 4024) (Cretaceous to of China)

Where: Xinjiang, China (46.1° N, 85.7° E: paleocoordinates 44.9° N, 82.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lianmugin Formation (Tugulu Group), Late/Upper Aptian to Late/Upper Aptian (122.5 - 99.6 Ma)

• lower part of formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; gray, sandy mudstone and gray, green sandstone

• "gray sandy mudstones and light green-gray sandstones"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1964; reposited in the IVPP

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

Primary reference: Z. Dong. 1973. [Dinosaurs from Wuerho]. Reports of Paleontological Expedition to Sinkiang (II): Pterosaurian Fauna from Wuerho, Sinkiang. Memoirs of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Academia Sinica 11:45-52 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 49048: authorized by Matt Carrano, entered by Matt Carrano on 06.04.2005