Ejinhoro Formation

Ejinhoro Formation
Stratigraphic range: Aptian/Albian, 113 Ma
↓
Type Geological formation
Location
Region Asia
Country  China

The Ejinhoro Formation (simplified Chinese: 伊金霍洛组; traditional Chinese: 伊金霍洛組; pinyin: Yījīnhuòluò Zǔ) is a geological formation in Inner Mongolia, north China, whose strata date back to the Early Cretaceous period (Aptian/Albian age.[1]

Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.[2]

Vertebrate paleofauna

Dinosaurs

Dinosaurs of the Ejinhoro Formation
Taxa Presence Notes Images

Genus:

  1. C. sp.

Isolated teeth.

A sauropod.
Sinornithoides
Wuerhosaurus

Genus:

  1. P. neimongoliensis
  2. P. ordosensis
 A ceratopsian.
  1. "[One] nearly complete skeleton and other fragmentary material."[3]
  2. "Partial cranial material."[3]

Order:

  1. indeterminate
 A large saurischian.

Genus:

  1. S. youngi

"Near-complete articulated skeleton."[4]

 A troodontid.

Family:

  1. indeterminate

Isolated teeth.

A stegosaurid.

Genus:

  1. W. ordosensis
 A large stegosaurid. "Partial skeleton, plate, vertebra, adult."[5]

Indeterminate pterosaur remains have also been recovered from it.[6]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Sereno, P.C. (2010). "Taxonomy, cranial morphology, and relationships of parrot-beaked dinosaurs (Ceratopsia: Psittacosaurus)." New Perspectives on Horned Dinosaurs. Bloomington: Indiana, 21-58.
  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. 1 2 "Table 22.1," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 479.
  4. ↑ "Table 9.1," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 185.
  5. ↑ "Table 16.1," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 345.
  6. ↑ http://epub.ub.uni-muenchen.de/12007/1/zitteliana_2008_b28_05.pdf


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