ammonites
SCDP Urho psittacosaur site (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: Tugulu Group, Aptian to Aptian (125.5 - 109.0 Ma)

• subgroup C

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: alluvial fan; sideritic, silty sandstone

• crevasse splay
• "sideritized, silty-to-very-fine-grained, massive, flat-based sandstone sheet, 20-30 cm thick"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: D. B. Brinkman, D. A. Eberth, M. J. Ryan and P. Chen. 2001. The occurrence of Psittacosaurus xinjiangensis Sereno and Chow, 1988 in the Urho area, Junggar Basin, Xinjiang, People's Republic of China. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 38:1781-1786 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/J. Alroy] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 60365: authorized by Matt Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 10.05.2006