Hasandong Formation

Hasandong Formation
Stratigraphic range: Aptian-Albian
Type Geological formation
Unit of Shindong Group
Location
Region North Gyeongsang Province
Country  South Korea

The Hasandong Formation is a Mesozoic geologic formation in South Korea.

Paleofauna

Dinosaur remains diagnostic to the genus level are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.[4] Tracks of the pterosaur ichnogenus Pteraichnus have also been recovered from the unit.[5]

See also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Y. Hangjae, Y. Yungnam, and Y. Hyesu. 2005. 경남 하동군 하산동층(전기 백악기)에서 산출된 악어 두개골의 골격학과 계통분류학적 연구 [A new protosuchian (Archosauria: Crocodyliformes) skull from the Hasandong Formation (Lower Cretaceous) of Hadong, Korea]. Korean Journal of Paleontology 21(1):146-150 (pdf at http://imgsvr.riss4u.net/contents3/td_contents8/09984/433/09984433.pdf)
  2. 1 2 "Table 13.1," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 271.
  3. ↑ Z. Dong, I. S. Paik, and H. J. Kim. 2001. A preliminary report on a sauropod from the Hasandong Formation (Lower Cretaceous), Korea. In T. Deng, Y. Wang (eds.), Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Chinese Society of Vertebrate Paleontology 41-53.
  4. ↑ Weishampel, et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution." Pp. 517-607.
  5. ↑ Y.-N. Lee, H.-J. Lee, J. and Y. Kobayashi. 2008. New pterosaur tracks from the Hasandong Formation (Lower Cretaceous) of Hadong County, South Korea. Cretaceous Research 29:345-353.

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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