Ejinhoro Formation

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Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Infobox".Script error: No such module "check for unknown parameters". The Ejinhoro Formation (Script error: No such module "Lang-zh".) is a geological formation in Inner Mongolia, north China, whose strata date back to the Early Cretaceous period (Barremian).[1]

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

Fossil content

Mammals

Mammals
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Genus:

  1. H. chowi

A single dentary[3]

A gobiconodontid

Dinosaurs

Dinosaurs
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Genus:

  1. C. sp.

Isolated teeth.

A sauropod.

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Sinornithoides
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Wuerhosaurus
  1. P. neimongoliensis
  2. P. ordosensis
A ceratopsian.
  1. "[One] nearly complete skeleton and other fragmentary material."[4]
  2. "Partial cranial material."[4]
  1. indeterminate
A large saurischian.
  1. S. youngi

"Near-complete articulated skeleton."[5]

A troodontid.
  1. indeterminate

Isolated teeth.

A stegosaurid.

  1. W. ordosensis
A large stegosaurid. "Partial skeleton, plate, vertebra, adult."[6]

Pterosaurs

Indeterminate pterosaur remains have also been recovered from the formation.[7]

See also

References

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  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. Template:ISBN.
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  4. a b "Table 22.1," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 479.
  5. "Table 9.1," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 185.
  6. "Table 16.1," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 345.
  7. 2008 - Zitteliana - Pterosaurs

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