Napan Formation

Napan Formation
Stratigraphic range: Early Cretaceous (?Aptian - Albian)
Type Geological formation
Location
Region Guangxi
Country China

The Napan Formation is an Early Cretaceous geologic formation. Dinosaur remains diagnostic to the genus level are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.[1]

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 Hühteeg Svita
Genus Species Location Stratigraphic position Material Notes Images

Asiatosaurus

A. kwangshiensis

Teeth.

Indeterminate Sauropod.

Datanglong[2]

D. guangxiensis

A member of Carcharodontosauria.

Fusuisaurus[3]

F. zhaoi[3]

A Titanosauriform

Liubangosaurus[4]

L. hei[4]

A Eusauropod.

Prodeinodon

P. kwangshiensis

Several teeth, fragmentary tibia, fragmentary fibula.

Indeterminate Theropod.

See also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Weishampel, et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution." Pp. 517-607.
  2. ↑ Mo, Zhou, Li, Huang and Cao, 2014. A new Carcharodontosauria (Theropoda) from the Early Cretaceous of Guangxi, Southern China. Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition). 88(4), 1051-1059.
  3. 1 2 Mo, J., Wang W.,Huang Z., Huang X., Xu X., 2006, "A Basal Titanosauriform from the Early Cretaceous of Guangxi, China", ACTA GEOLOGICA SINICA, Vol.80 No.4 P.486-489
  4. 1 2 Mo Jinyou, Xu Xing and Eric Buffetaut (2010). "A New Eusauropod Dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of Guangxi Province, Southern China". Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition). 84 (6): 1328–1335. doi:10.1111/j.1755-6724.2010.00331.x.

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