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.

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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