Tugulu Group

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Tugulu Group
Stratigraphic range: Early Cretaceous
Type Geological formation
Sub-units Qingshuihe Formation, Hutubihe Formation, Shengjinkou Formation, Lianmuqin Formation
Underlies Donggou Formation, Kumutake Formation
Overlies Shishugou Formation[1]
Thickness 150–1640 meters thick
Location
Region Xinjiang
Country China

The Tugulu Group (simplified Chinese: 吐谷鲁群; traditional Chinese: 吐谷魯群; pinyin: Tǔgǔlǔ Qún) is a geological formation in Xinjiang, China whose strata date back to the Early Cretaceous. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.[2][3][4]

Vertebrate paleofauna

Dinosaurs

Color key
Taxon Reclassified taxon Taxon falsely reported as present Dubious taxon or junior synonym Ichnotaxon Ootaxon Morphotaxon
Notes
Uncertain or tentative taxa are in small text; crossed out taxa are discredited.
Dinosaurs reported from the Tugulu Group
Genus Species Location Stratigraphic position Material Notes Images

Asiatosaurus[5]

A. mongoliensis[5]

Kelmayisaurus[5][6]

K. petrolicus[5]

"Maxilla and dentary."[7]

Xinjiangovenator

X. parvus

"Tibia [and] phalanges."[8]

Formerly thought to be a representative of Phaedrolosaurus ilikensis.[5]

Phaedrolosaurus

P. ilikensis

"tooth"[9]

Psittacosaurus[5]

P. xinjiangensis[5]

Tugulusaurus[5]

T. faciles[5]

"Hindlimb, rib, [and a] vertebral centrum."[10]

Wuerhosaurus[5]

W. homheni[5]

"Partial skeleton."[11]

Pterosaurs

Pterosaurs of the Lianmuqin Formation
Genus Species Location Stratigraphic position Abundance Notes Images

Dsungaripterus

D. weii[12]

Lonchognathosaurus

L. acutirostris[13]

Possible junior synonym of Dsungaripterus weii.[14]

Noripterus

N. complicidens[13]

A dsungaripterid.

Crurotarsans

Name Species Location Stratigraphic position Abundance Notes Images

Edentosuchus

E. tienshanensis[15]

Footnotes

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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. ISBN 0-520-24209-2.
  3. Lucas, Spencer G, Chinese Fossil vertebrates, Pp. 158-159, New York, Columbia University Press, ISBN 0-231-08483-8.
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  5. 5.00 5.01 5.02 5.03 5.04 5.05 5.06 5.07 5.08 5.09 5.10 "48.5 Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu, People's Republic of China; 1. Tugulu Group," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 567.
  6. http://www.app.pan.pl/archive/published/app56/app20100125_acc.pdf
  7. "Table 4.1," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 73.
  8. "Table 4.1," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 78.
  9. Z.-M. Dong. (1973). [Dinosaurs from Wuerho]. Memoirs of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Academic Sinica 11:45-52. [Chinese]
  10. "Table 4.1," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 77.
  11. "Table 16.1," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 345.
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  13. 13.0 13.1 Barrett, P.M., Butler, R.J., Edwards, N.P., & Milner, A.R. Pterosaur distribution in time and space: an atlas. p61-107. in Flugsaurier: Pterosaur papers in honour of Peter Wellnhofer. 2008. Hone, D.W.E., and Buffetaut, E. (eds). Zitteliana B, 28. 264pp.[1]
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  15. http://www.paleoglot.org/files/Li_85a.pdf

References

  • Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.): The Dinosauria, 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press. 861 pp. ISBN 0-520-24209-2.


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