Wangshi Group
Geological group in Shandong, China
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::summary Geological group in Shandong, China ::
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Wangshi Group |
| image | Wangshi Group Anomalipes type locality.png |
| caption | An outcrop of the Wangshi Group at Kugou which is the type locality for Anomalipes zhaoi. Photographed in . |
| type | Group |
| age | Campanian |
| ~ | |
| period | Santonian |
| prilithology | Conglomerate |
| otherlithology | Marl |
| region | Shandong |
| country | China |
| coordinates | |
| paleocoordinates | |
| unitof | Jiaolai Basin |
| subunits | Linjiazhuang, Jiangjunding, Xingezhuang, Hongtuya, Jingangkou & Shijiatun Formations |
| underlies | Jiaozhou Formation |
| overlies | Qingshan Group |
| map | {{Location map+ |
| relief | 1 |
| width | 250 |
| float | center |
| lat_deg | 36.9 |
| lon_deg | 120.7 |
| mark | Lightgreen pog.svg |
| marksize | 12 |
| :: |
| name = Wangshi Group | image = Wangshi Group Anomalipes type locality.png | caption = An outcrop of the Wangshi Group at Kugou which is the type locality for Anomalipes zhaoi. Photographed in . | type = Group | age = Campanian ~ | period = Santonian | prilithology = Conglomerate | otherlithology = Marl | namedfor = | namedby = | region = Shandong | country = China | coordinates = | paleocoordinates = | unitof = Jiaolai Basin | subunits = Linjiazhuang, Jiangjunding, Xingezhuang, Hongtuya, Jingangkou & Shijiatun Formations | underlies = Jiaozhou Formation | overlies = Qingshan Group | thickness = | extent = | area = | map = {{Location map+ | China#China Shandong | relief = 1 | width = 250 | float = center | places = | lat_deg = 36.9 | lon_deg = 120.7 | mark = Lightgreen pog.svg | marksize = 12 | map_caption = The Wangshi Group () is a geological Group in Shandong, China whose strata date back to the Campanian stage of the Late Cretaceous, approximately . Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the group.
Vertebrate paleofauna
Dinosaurs
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| Dinosaurs of the Wangshi Group | Genus | Species | Location | Stratigraphic position | Material | Notes | Images |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anomalipes | A. zhaoi | "Partial left hindlimb" | A caenagnathid oviraptorosaur | ||||
| Chingkankousaurus | C. fragilis | Nomen dubium | |||||
| Ischioceratops | I. zhuchengensis | [[File:Ischioceratops.jpg | center | ||||
| Laiyangosaurus | L. youngi | Jingangkou Formation | A saurolophine hadrosaur | [[File:Laiyangosaurus.jpg | center | ||
| Micropachycephalosaurus | M. hongtuyanensis | "Partial mandible, associated postcranial fragments." | [[File:Micropachycephalosaurus.jpg | center | |||
| Pinacosaurus | P. cf. grangeri | Shandong | "A well-preserved sacrum with the attached right ilium and part of the presacral rod, caudal vertebrae, a left femur and a dermal scute." | Remains collected in 1923 by H. C. T'an and Otto Zdansky and mentioned by Buffetaut (1995) | [[File:Pinacosaurus Jack Wood 2017.png | center | |
| Shantungosaurus | S. giganteus | Xingezhuang Formation | [[File:Shantungosaurus life.png | center | |||
| Sinankylosaurus | S. zhuchengensis | Hongtuya Formation | "Partial right ilium." | Nomen dubium; originally described as an ankylosaur | |||
| Sinoceratops | S. zhuchengensis | Xingezhuang Formation | [[File:Sinoceratops NT.jpg | center | |||
| Tanius | T. chingkankouensis | Jingangkou Formation | [[File:Tanius.jpg | center | |||
| T. laiyangensis | Jingangkou Formation | Nomen dubium | |||||
| T. sinensis | Jingangkou Formation | ||||||
| Tsintaosaurus | T. spinorhinus | Jingangkou Formation | "Isolated skull and postcranial elements from at least [five] individuals." | [[File:Tsintaosaurus-spinorhinus-steveoc86.png | center | ||
| author=David W. E. Hone | author2=Kebai Wang | author3=Corwin Sullivan | author4=Xijin Zhao | author5=Shuqing Chen | author6=Dunjin Li | author7=Shuan Ji | author8=Qiang Ji |
| Zhuchengceratops | Z. inexpectus | Xingezhuang Formation | [[File:Zhuchengceratops NT.jpg | center | |||
| Zhuchengtitan | Z. zangjiazhuangensis | Xingezhuang Formation | "a single humerus" | A titanosaur closely related to Opisthocoelicaudia | |||
| :: |
Other fauna
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| Other fauna of the Wangshi Group | Genus | Species | Location | Stratigraphic position | Material | Notes | Images |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shandongemys | S. dongwuica | A lindholmemydid turtle | |||||
| :: |
Fossil eggs
The following fossil eggs were recovered from the Jingangkou Formation of the Wangshi Group.
References
Bibliography
- Hu, Cheng, Pang and Fang (2001). Shantungosaurus giganteus: [3 front matter] + ii + 139 pp. + 18 plates (in Chinese with English abstract; publisher's name not translated)
References
- (2016). "Detrital zircon dating and tracing the provenance of dinosaur bone beds from the Late Cretaceous Wangshi Group in Zhucheng, Shandong, East China". Journal of Palaeogeography.
- Weishampel et al., 2004, pp.593-600
- Yilun Yu; Kebai Wang; Shuqing Chen; Corwin Sullivan; Shuo Wang; Peiye Wang; Xing Xu (2018). "A new caenagnathid dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous Wangshi Group of Shandong, China, with comments on size variation among oviraptorosaurs". Scientific Reports. 8: Article number 5030. [[doi:10.1038/s41598-018-23252-2]]
- "48.9 Shandong, People's Republic of China; 1. Wangshi Group," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 598.
- Yiming He, Peter J. Makovicky, Kebai Wang, Shuqing Chen, Corwin Sullivan, Fenglu Han, Xing XuMichael J. Ryan, David C. Evans, Philip J. Currie, Caleb M. Brown and Don Brinkman (2015). "A New Leptoceratopsid (Ornithischia, Ceratopsia) with a Unique Ischium from the Upper Cretaceous of Shandong Province, China".
- Zhang, J.L.; Wang, X.; Wang, Q.; Jiang, S.; Cheng, X.; Ning, L.; Qiu, R. (2017). "A new saurolophine hadrosaurid (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) from the Upper Cretaceous of Shandong, China" (PDF). Annals of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences.
- "Table 21.1," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 466.
- Listed as "''Pinacosaurus'' cf. ''grangeri''" in "48.9 Shandong, People's Republic of China; 1. Wangshi Group," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 598.
- Buffetaut, Eric. (1995). "An ankylosaurid dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of Shandong (China)". Geological Magazine.
- Zheng, Wenjie. (November 2021). "First definitive ankylosaurian dinosaur from the Cretaceous of Jilin Province, northeastern China". Cretaceous Research.
- "Table 20.1," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 442.
- David W. E. Hone. (2011). "A new, large tyrannosaurine theropod from the Upper Cretaceous of China". Cretaceous Research.
- Mo, J.; Wang, K.; Chen, S.; Wang, P.; Xu, X. (2017). "A new titanosaurian sauropod from the Late Cretaceous strata of Shandong Province". Geological Bulletin of China. 36 (9): 1501–1505.
- L. Li, H. Tong, K. Wang, S. Chen, and X. Xu. 2013. Lindholmemydid turtles (Cryptodira: Testudinoidea) from the Late Cretaceous of Shandong Province, China. Annales de Paléontologie 99:243-259
- [https://paleobiodb.org/classic/basicCollectionSearch?collection_no=24757 Jingangkou] in the [[Paleobiology Database]]
- Young, 1954
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