Toutunhe Formation

The Toutunhe Formation is a Middle Jurassic geological formation in China. Dinosaur remains diagnostic to the genus level are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.[1] The lower portion of the formation consists of grey to reddish mudstone with medium to coarse grained cross bedded sandstone, while the upper portion consists primarily of brown-red-purple mudstone, interbedded with fine to medium grained laminated sandstone.[2]

Toutunhe Formation
Stratigraphic range: Middle Jurassic (late Bathonian-middle Oxfordian)
TypeGeological formation
UnderliesQigu Formation
OverliesXishanyao Formation
ThicknessAround 400 metres
Lithology
PrimaryMudstone, Sandstone
Location
RegionXinjiang
Country China
ExtentSouthern Junggar Basin

Paleofauna

Tianchisaurus nedegoapeferima - "Partial skeleton."[3]

See also

Footnotes

  1. Weishampel, et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution." Pp. 517-607.
  2. "Jurassic sedimentary evolution of southern Junggar Basin: Implication for palaeoclimate changes in northern Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China". Journal of Palaeogeography. 3 (2): 145–161. April 2014. doi:10.3724/SP.J.1261.2014.00049 (inactive 2021-01-15).CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of January 2021 (link)
  3. "Table 17.1," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 368.

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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