Liangtoutang Formation
| Liangtoutang Formation | |
|---|---|
| Stratigraphic range: Albian to Cenomanian | |
| Type | Geological formation |
| Unit of | Tiantai Group |
| Underlies | Chichengshan Formation |
| Overlies | Tangshang Formation |
| Area | Huzhen Basin |
| Thickness | About 300 m |
| Lithology | |
| Primary | Sandstone |
| Location | |
| Region | Asia |
| Country |  China |
| Extent | Zhejiang |
The Liangtoutang Formation, also referred to as the Laijia Formation is a geological formation located in Zhejiang, China. Its strata date back to the Albian to Cenomanian stages of the Cretaceous period. The lithology primarily consists of red sandstone.
Paleofauna
Dinosaurs
Color key
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Notes Uncertain or tentative taxa are in small text; |
| Dinosaurs reported from the Liangtoutang Formation | ||||||
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| Genus | Species | Material | Notes | Images | ||
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Y. tiantaiensis |
"Partial postcranial skeleton"[1] |
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J. sinensis |
"An almost complete skull" and two partial postcranial skeletons[2] |
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Footnotes
- ^ Zheng, Wenjie; Xingsheng Jin; Masateru Shibata; Yoichi Azuma; Fangming Yu (2012). "A new ornithischian dinosaur from the Cretaceous Liangtoutang Formation of Tiantai, Zhejiang Province, China". Cretaceous Research. 34: 208–219. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2011.11.001.
- ^ Wenjie Zheng; Xingsheng Jin; Yoichi Azuma; Qiongying Wang; Kazunori Miyata; Xing Xu (2018). "The most basal ankylosaurine dinosaur from the Albian–Cenomanian of China, with implications for the evolution of the tail club". Scientific Reports. 8: Article number 3711. doi:10.1038/s41598-018-21924-7.