Gaogou Formation
Gaogou Formation Stratigraphic range: Late Cretaceous, Cenomanian-Turonian | |
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The Gaogou Formation is a Mesozoic geologic formation in China. Fossil dinosaur eggs, the caenagnathid Beibeilong, and the titanosaur Baotianmansaurus have been reported from the formation.[1][2]
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Footnotes
- ↑ Weishampel, et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution." Pp. 517-607.
- ↑ Hanyong Pu; Darla K. Zelenitsky; Junchang Lü; Philip J. Currie; Kenneth Carpenter; Li Xu; Eva B. Koppelhus; Songhai Jia; Le Xiao; Huali Chuang; Tianran Li; Martin Kundrát; Caizhi Shen (2017). "Perinate and eggs of a giant caenagnathid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of central China". Nature Communications. 8: Article number 14952. doi:10.1038/ncomms14952.
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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