The Jinhua Formation () is a geological
formation
Formation may refer to:
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Mathematics and science
* Cave formation or speleothem, a secondar ...
in
Zhejiang
Zhejiang ( or , ; , also romanized as Chekiang) is an eastern, coastal province of the People's Republic of China. Its capital and largest city is Hangzhou, and other notable cities include Ningbo and Wenzhou. Zhejiang is bordered by Jiang ...
,
China
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, whose strata date back to the
Late Cretaceous
The Late Cretaceous (100.5–66 Ma) is the younger of two epochs into which the Cretaceous Period is divided in the geologic time scale. Rock strata from this epoch form the Upper Cretaceous Series. The Cretaceous is named after ''creta'', the ...
period (Turonian to Coniacian).
It was initially believed to be
Early Cretaceous
The Early Cretaceous ( geochronological name) or the Lower Cretaceous (chronostratigraphic name), is the earlier or lower of the two major divisions of the Cretaceous. It is usually considered to stretch from 145 Ma to 100.5 Ma.
Geology
Pro ...
(
late Albian) in age.
[Feng Tang, Xi-Min Kang, Xing-Sheng Jin, Feng Wei, Wei-Tang Wu (2001]
"A New Sauropod Dinosaur of Cretaceous From Jiangshan, Zhejiang Province"
in: ''Vertebrata PalAsiatica.'' Bd. 39, Nr. 4, pp. 272–281.
Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.
[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. .]
Fossil content
* ''
Jiangshanosaurus lixianensis''
- "Partial postcranial skeleton."
["Table 13.1," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 269.]
See also
*
List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations
This list of dinosaur-bearing rock formations is a list of geologic formations in which dinosaur fossils have been documented.
Containing body fossils
* List of stratigraphic units with dinosaur body fossils
** List of stratigraphic units with few ...
References
Geologic formations of China
Upper Cretaceous Series of Asia
Cretaceous China
Coniacian Stage
Turonian Stage
Paleontology in Zhejiang
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