> Wouldn't it be great to find a 'brach' at Liaoning, with THAT kind
> of preservation?!!? WoW!
Unless you want my death from drowning in my own saliva on your
conscience, you really shouldn't raise such prospects.
Sauropod remains are known from the Yixian Formation - but AFAIK they have
not yet been described:
Wang, X.-L. et al. (1988). Stratigraphic sequence and vertebrate-bearing
beds of the lower part of the Yixian Formation in Sihetun and neighbouring
area, western Liaoning, China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 36: 81-101.
I haven't seen this publication, so I don't know if it the sauropod comes
with fossilized integument. I very much doubt it. :-( I believe some
sauropod material was found near Liaoxi, but that's all I know.