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{{Short description|Geological formation in China}}
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| type           = [[Geological formation]]
| age            =  [[Early Cretaceous]], <br>~{{fossilrange|120|100|earliest=145}}
| period         = Early Cretaceous
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| region         = [[Asia]]
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| overlies       = [[Loe-ein Formation]]
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The '''Lura Formation''' is a geological [[Formation (geology)|formation]] in western China, which outcrops in [[Tibet]], whose strata date back to the [[Early Cretaceous]]. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.<ref name="cretaceousdistribution">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}}.</ref>

==Vertebrate paleofauna==
* [[Tetanurae|Tetanurae indet.]]<ref name="cretaceousdistribution"/> 
* [[Coelurosauria|?Coelurosauria indet.]] (="[[Microvenator]] chagyabi")<ref name="cretaceousdistribution"/> 
* [[Sauropoda|Sauropoda indet.]] (=cf. ''[[Asiatosaurus|Asiatosaurus kwangshiensis]]'')<ref name="cretaceousdistribution"/> 
* ''[[Monkonosaurus]] lawulacus''?<ref name="cretaceousdistribution"/> - "[Two] vertebrae, sacrum with illia, [three] plates, adult. (possibly found instead in the overlying [[Loe-ein Formation]])"<ref name="table-16-1-345">"Table 16.1," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 345.</ref>

== See also ==
{{Portal|Earth sciences|Paleontology|Dinosaurs}}
* [[List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations]]

== References ==
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[[Category:Geologic formations of China]]
[[Category:Lower Cretaceous Series of Asia]]
[[Category:Cretaceous China]]
[[Category:Paleontology in Tibet]]


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