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Napan Formation
Stratigraphic range: Early Cretaceous (?Aptian - Albian)Type Geological formation Location Region Guangxi Country China The Napan Formation is an Early Cretaceous geologic formation. Dinosaur remains diagnostic to the genus level are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.[1]
Contents
Vertebrate paleofauna
Dinosaurs
Color key
Taxon Reclassified taxon Taxon falsely reported as present Discredited taxon Ichnotaxon Ootaxon Morphotaxon Notes
Uncertain or tentative data are in small text;crossed outdata are discredited.Dinosaurs reported from the Hühteeg Svita Genus Species Location Stratigraphic position Material Notes Images A. kwangshiensis
Teeth.
Indeterminate Sauropod.
Indeterminate Ornithopod
F. zhaoi[2]
A Titanosauriform
Liubangosaurus[3]
L. hei[3]
A Eusauropod.
P. kwangshiensis
Several teeth, fragmentary tibia, fragmentary fibula.
Indeterminate Theropod.
See also
- List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations
- List of stratigraphic units with few dinosaur genera
Footnotes
- ^ Weishampel, et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution." Pp. 517-607.
- ^ a b Mo, J., Wang W.,Huang Z., Huang X., Xu X., 2006, "A Basal Titanosauriform from the Early Cretaceous of Guangxi, China", ACTA GEOLOGICA SINICA, Vol.80 No.4 P.486-489
- ^ a b Mo Jinyou, Xu Xing and Eric Buffetaut (2010). "A New Eusauropod Dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of Guangxi Province, Southern China". Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition) 84 (6): 1328–1335. http://www.geojournals.cn/dzxben/ch/reader/view_abstract.aspx?file_no=201006002&flag=1.
References
- Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.): The Dinosauria, 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press. 861 pp. ISBN 0-520-24209-2.
Categories:- Mesozoic geologic formations
- Geologic formation stubs
- List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations
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