Tugulu Group

Tugulu Group
Stratigraphic range: Early Cretaceous
Type Geological formation
Sub-units Qingshuihe Formation, Hutubihe Formation, Shengjinkou Formation, Lianmuqin Formation
Underlies Donggou Formation, Kumutake Formation
Overlies Shishugou Formation[1]
Thickness 150-1640 meters thick
Location
Region Xinjiang
Country China

The Tugulu Group (simplified Chinese: 吐谷鲁群; traditional Chinese: 吐谷魯群; pinyin: Tǔgǔlǔ Qún) is a geological formation in Xinjiang, China whose strata date back to the Early Cretaceous. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.[2][3][4]

Vertebrate paleofauna

Dinosaurs

Color key
Taxon Reclassified taxon Taxon falsely reported as present Dubious taxon or junior synonym Ichnotaxon Ootaxon Morphotaxon
 Notes
Uncertain or tentative taxa are in small text; crossed out taxa are discredited.
Dinosaurs reported from the Tugulu Group
Genus Species Location Stratigraphic position Material Notes Images

Asiatosaurus[5]

A. mongoliensis[5]
Wuerhosaurus

Kelmayisaurus[5][6]

K. petrolicus[5]

"Maxilla and dentary."[7]

Xinjiangovenator

X. parvus

"Tibia [and] phalanges."[8]

Formerly thought to be a representative of Phaedrolosaurus ilikensis.[5]

Phaedrolosaurus[9]

P. ilikensis

"tooth"[10]

Psittacosaurus[5]

P. xinjiangensis[5]

Tugulusaurus[5]

T. faciles[5]

"Hindlimb, rib, [and a] vertebral centrum."[11]

Wuerhosaurus[5]

W. homheni[5]

"Partial skeleton."[12]

Pterosaurs

Pterosaurs of the Lianmuqin Formation
Genus Species Location Stratigraphic position Abundance Notes Images

Dsungaripterus

D. weii[13]

Lonchognathosaurus

L. acutirostris[14]

Possible junior synonym of Dsungaripterus weii.[15]

Noripterus

N. complicidens[14]

Crurotarsans

Name Species Location Stratigraphic position Abundance Notes Images

Edentosuchus

E. tienshanensis[16]

Footnotes

  1. ↑ http://books.google.com/books?id=OdFfiwV51zUC&pg=PA356&lpg=PA356&dq=tugulu+group+overlies&source=bl&ots=SGfQkHkPpY&sig=6gGPCkFpdQVN2fwhNTQwFjQUCms&hl=en&ei=3fK5TeDLH-LV0QGnk5X8Dw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CDcQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=tugulu%20group%20overlies&f=false
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ Lucas, Spencer G, Chinese Fossil vertebrates, Pp. 158-159, New York, Columbia University Press, ISBN 0-231-08483-8.
  4. ↑ http://books.google.com/books?id=svFUrN8xBpwC&pg=PA158&lpg=PA158&dq=tugulu+group+lianmuqing&source=bl&ots=f23srlaULJ&sig=o2_pjJqdm7ktbrjRtWiNifkPXMQ&hl=en&ei=C9S5TYS7JMTx0gG23oC7CQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CCkQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q&f=false
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.7 5.8 5.9 5.10 "48.5 Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu, People's Republic of China; 1. Tugulu Group," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 567.
  6. ↑ http://www.app.pan.pl/archive/published/app56/app20100125_acc.pdf
  7. ↑ "Table 4.1," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 73.
  8. ↑ "Table 4.1," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 78.
  9. ↑ http://www.dinodata.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7235&Itemid=67
  10. ↑ Z.-M. Dong. (1973). [Dinosaurs from Wuerho]. Memoirs of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Academic Sinica 11:45-52. [Chinese]
  11. ↑ "Table 4.1," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 77.
  12. ↑ "Table 16.1," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 345.
  13. ↑ http://dml.cmnh.org/2005Feb/msg00427.html
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 Barrett, P.M., Butler, R.J., Edwards, N.P., & Milner, A.R. Pterosaur distribution in time and space: an atlas. p61-107. in Flugsaurier: Pterosaur papers in honour of Peter Wellnhofer. 2008. Hone, D.W.E., and Buffetaut, E. (eds). Zitteliana B, 28. 264pp.
  15. ↑ Andres, B.; Clark, J. M.; Xing, X. (2010). "A new rhamphorhynchid pterosaur from the Upper Jurassic of Xinjiang, China, and the phylogenetic relationships of basal pterosaurs". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30 (1): 163–187. doi:10.1080/02724630903409220.
  16. ↑ http://www.paleoglot.org/files/Li_85a.pdf

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