The Wangshi Group () is a geological

Group A group is a number of persons or things that are located, gathered, or classed together. Groups of people * Cultural group, a group whose members share the same cultural identity * Ethnic group, a group whose members share the same ethnic ide ...

in Shandong, China whose strata date back to the

Coniacian The Coniacian is an age or stage in the geologic timescale. It is a subdivision of the Late Cretaceous Epoch or Upper Cretaceous Series and spans the time between 89.8 ± 1 Ma and 86.3 ± 0.7 Ma (million years ago). The Coniacian is preceded b ...

Campanian The Campanian is the fifth of six ages of the Late Cretaceous Epoch on the geologic timescale of the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS). In chronostratigraphy, it is the fifth of six stages in the Upper Cretaceous Series. Campani ...

stages of 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'', ...

.Wangshi Group
in the

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Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the group.Weishampel et al., 2004, pp.593-600

Vertebrate paleofauna

Dinosaurs

Other fauna

Fossil eggs

The following fossil eggs were recovered from the Jingangkou Formation of the Wangshi Group.Jingangkou
in the

Young, 1954 *

Saurischia Saurischia ( , meaning "reptile-hipped" from the Greek ' () meaning 'lizard' and ' () meaning 'hip joint') is one of the two basic divisions of dinosaurs (the other being Ornithischia), classified by their hip structure. Saurischia and Ornithi ...

Elongatoolithidae Elongatoolithidae is an oofamily of fossil eggs, representing the eggs of oviraptorosaurs (with the exception of the avian ''Ornitholithus''). They are known for their highly elongated shape. Elongatoolithids have been found in Europe, Asia, and b ...

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Elongatoolithus elongatus ''Elongatoolithus'' is an oogenus of dinosaur eggs found in the Late Cretaceous formations of China and Mongolia. Like other elongatoolithids, they were laid by small theropods (probably oviraptorosaurs), and were cared for and incubated by ...

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Neornithischia Neornithischia ("new ornithischians") is a clade of the dinosaur order Ornithischia. It is the sister group of the Thyreophora within the clade Genasauria. Neornithischians are united by having a thicker layer of asymmetrical enamel on the insi ...

Ovaloolithidae ''Ovaloolithus'' is an oogenus of dinosaur egg. Eggs of the genus have been found in China, Mongolia and Utah. Species Oospecies attributed to this genus include:Ovaloolithus chinkangkouensis ''Ovaloolithus'' is an oogenus of dinosaur egg. Eggs of the genus have been found in China, Mongolia and Utah. Species Oospecies attributed to this genus include:Ovaloolithus laminadermus ''Ovaloolithus'' is an oogenus of dinosaur egg. Eggs of the genus have been found in China, Mongolia and Utah. Species Oospecies attributed to this genus include: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 f ...

References

Bibliography

* * Hu, Cheng, Pang and Fang (2001). ''Shantungosaurus giganteus'': front matter+ ii + 139 pp. + 18 plates (in Chinese with English abstract; publisher's name not translated) * {{cite journal , last=Young , first=C.-C , date=1954 , title=Fossil reptilian eggs from Laiyang, Shantung, China , journal=

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, volume=3 , pages=505–522 Geologic groups of Asia Geologic formations of China Upper Cretaceous Series of Asia Cretaceous China Campanian Stage Coniacian Stage Santonian Stage Sandstone formations Shale formations Siltstone formations Conglomerate formations Fluvial deposits Ooliferous formations Paleontology in Shandong