Huiquanpu Formation

The Huiquanpu Formation (simplified Chinese: 灰泉堡组; traditional Chinese: 灰泉堡組; pinyin: Huīquánpù Zǔ) is a geological formation in Shanxi and Hebei provinces, China, whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous period. It predominantly consists of purple-red mudstone, with subordinate grey-white sandy conglomerates.[1]

Huiquanpu Formation
Stratigraphic range: Cenomanian-Campanian
TypeGeological formation
UnderliesMiddle Miocene basalt
OverliesArchean gneiss basement
ThicknessOver 200 metres
Lithology
PrimaryMudstone
OtherConglomerate
Location
RegionHebei & Shanxi Provinces,
Country China

Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.[2]

Vertebrate paleofauna
  • Huabeisaurus allocotus — Teeth [and] postcranial skeleton; Cenomanian to Campanian stages.[3]
  • Tianzhenosaurus youngi — "Skull [and] postcranial skeleton."[4]
  • Datonglong tianzhenensis — Tianzhen.[5]
  • Shanxia tianzhenensis — "Partial skull."[6]
  • Jinbeisaurus wangi — "Maxilla, dentary and fragmentary postcrania."[1]

See also
  • List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations

References
  1. Xiao-chun, Wu; Jian-Ru, Shi; Li-Yang, Dong; Carr, Thomas D.; Jian, Yi; Shi-Chao, Xu (December 2019). "A new tyrannosauroid from the Upper Cretaceous of Shanxi, China". Cretaceous Research. 108: 104357. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2019.104357.
  2. Weishampel, David B; et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution (Late Cretaceous, Asia)." In: Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.): The Dinosauria, 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press. Pp. 593-600. ISBN 0-520-24209-2.
  3. "Table 13.1," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 268.
  4. "Table 17.1," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 364.
  5. Shi-Chao Xu, Hai-Lu You, Jia-Wei Wang, Suo-Zhu Wang, Jian Yi and Lei Yia (2016). "A new hadrosauroid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Tianzhen, Shanxi Province, China". Vertebrata PalAsiatica. in press.
  6. "Table 17.1," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 368.


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