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On Gong, Inner Mongolia, China

FormationOn Gong
Age:125 - 101 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous
IntervalAptian - Albian
Lithologysiliciclastic
Number of Collections2
Number of Occurrences5

Recorded Sample Locations

LocationRegionStratigraphic Name
Hu Khung Ulan Ejin Banner (Ejina Co.), Alxa League (Alashan Prefecture), Inner Mongolia, ChinaOn Gong
Urad ZhongqiUrad Middle Banner (Wulate Zhongqi), Bayannur City (Bayannao'er Prefecture), Inner Mongolia, ChinaOn Gong

Recorded Fossils

Accepted NameHierarchyAge
Psittacosaurus sp.
genus
6Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Dinosauria : Psittacosauridae : Psittacosaurus125 - 100.5 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous
Trionychidae
family
5Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Testudines : Trionychidae125 - 100.5 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous
Mongolosaurus haplodon
species
7Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Dinosauria : Diplodocidae : Mongolosaurus : Mongolosaurus haplodon125 - 100.5 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous
Theropoda
unranked clade
99Animalia : Chordata : Saurischia : Theropoda145 - 100.5 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous

References

Osborn H. F. (1930) Ancient vertebrate life of central Asia: discoveries of the central Asiatic expeditions of the Museum of Natural History in the years 1921–1929, Centenaire de la Société géologique de France. Livre jubilaire 1830-1930 2, 519-543
Gilmore C. W. (1933) Two new dinosaurian reptiles from Mongolia with notes on some fragmentary specimens, American Museum Novitates 679, 1-20
Dong Z.-M. (1994) Early Cretaceous dinosaur faunas in China: an introduction, Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 30 10-11, 2096-2100
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!
 
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