The Xingezhuang Formation is an

Upper 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 ...

fossil bearing rock formation in

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. It is located near

Zhucheng Zhucheng () is a county-level city in the southeast of Shandong province, People's Republic of China. It is under the administration of Weifang city and had at the 2010 census a population of 1,086,222 even though its built-up (''or metro'') area ...

, in the

province A province is almost always an administrative division within a country or sovereign state, state. The term derives from the ancient Roman ''Roman province, provincia'', which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire ...

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.Zhao Xijin, Wang Kebai, & Li Dunjing. (2011). "''Huaxiaosaurus aigahtens''." ''Geological Bulletin of China'' 30 (11):1671-1688

Dinosaur finds

Ceratopsians

Ornithopods

Sauropods

Theropods

Thyreophorans

Reptilia

References

Geologic formations of China Upper Cretaceous Series of Asia Cretaceous China Maastrichtian Stage Lagerstätten Fossiliferous stratigraphic units of Asia Paleontology in Shandong {{China-geologic-formation-stub