Qingshan Formation

Qingshan Formation Stratigraphic range: Early Cretaceous, Aptian - Albian
Type	Geological formation
Location
Region	Shandong
Country	China

The Qingshan Formation (simplified Chinese: 青山组; traditional Chinese: 青山組; pinyin: Qīngshān Zǔ) is a geological formation in Shandong, China, whose strata date back to the Early Cretaceous. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.^[1]

Vertebrate paleofauna

Indeterminate sauropod remains^[1]
Psittacosaurus sinensis^[1] - "More than [twenty] individuals,[five] complete skulls, [three] articulated skeletons."^[2]
Psittacosaurus youngi^[1] "Partial skeleton with skull."^[2]
Possible indeterminate dsungaripterid pterosaur remains^[3]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Weishampel, David B; et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution (Early Cretaceous, Asia)." In: Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.): The Dinosauria, 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press. Pp. 563-570. ISBN 0-520-24209-2.
^ ^a ^b "Table 22.1," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 479.
^ http://epub.ub.uni-muenchen.de/12007/1/zitteliana_2008_b28_05.pdf