The spinicaudatan Tylestheria and biostratigraphic significance for the age of dinosaur eggs in the Upper Cretaceous Majiacun Formation, Xixia Basin, Henan Province, China

Gang Li; Peiji Chen; Deyou Wang; David J. Batten

doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2008.09.002

The spinicaudatan Tylestheria and biostratigraphic significance for the age of dinosaur eggs in the Upper Cretaceous Majiacun Formation, Xixia Basin, Henan Province, China

Gang Li, Peiji Chen, Deyou Wang, David J. Batten

Department of Geography and Earth Sciences

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Abstract

The spinicaudatan Tylestheria was first described from the clam shrimp ('conchostracan') Halysestheria yui Zone in the upper Turonian First Member of the Nenjiang Formation, which crops out in the Songliao Basin in Heilongjiang and Jilin provinces, north-east China. Representatives of the genus have been found previously only in this basin. The species described herein as Tylestheria xixiaensis sp. nov. was recovered from the dinosaur-egg-bearing Majiacun Formation in the Xixia Basin, south-west Henan Province. The age of this formation has been uncertain hitherto, with both Early and Late Cretaceous determinations having been made. The recovery of T xixiaensis from it suggests that the fossil bearing strata can be correlated with the First Member of the Nenjiang Formation and are, therefore, also of Turonian age. (C) 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	477-482
Number of pages	6
Journal	Cretaceous Research
Volume	30
Issue number	2
Early online date	07 Oct 2008
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2008.09.002
Publication status	Published - Apr 2011

Keywords

Spinicaudata
Branchiopoda
Tylestheria
Upper Cretaceous
Dinosaur-egg-bearing strata
Xixia Basin
China

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