Liangtoutang Formation
The Liangtoutang Formation, also referred to as the Laijia Formation is a geological formation located in Zhejiang, China. Its strata date back to the Albian to Cenomanian stages of the Cretaceous period. The lithology primarily consists of red sandstone.
| Liangtoutang Formation Stratigraphic range: Albian to Cenomanian 105.9–96 Ma | |
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| Type | Geological formation |
| Unit of | Tiantai Group |
| Underlies | Chichengshan Formation |
| Overlies | Tangshang Formation |
| Area | Huzhen Basin |
| Thickness | About 300 m |
| Lithology | |
| Primary | Sandstone |
| Location | |
| Region | Asia |
| Country |  |
| Extent | Zhejiang |
Paleofauna
Dinosaurs
Color key
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Notes Uncertain or tentative taxa are in small text; |
| Dinosaurs reported from the Liangtoutang Formation | ||||||
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| Genus | Species | Material | Notes | Images | ||
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Y. tiantaiensis |
"Partial postcranial skeleton"[1] |
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J. sinensis |
"An almost complete skull" and two partial postcranial skeletons[2] |
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Footnotes
- Zheng, Wenjie; Xingsheng Jin; Masateru Shibata; Yoichi Azuma; Fangming Yu (2012). "A new ornithischian dinosaur from the Cretaceous Liangtoutang Formation of Tiantai, Zhejiang Province, China". Cretaceous Research. 34: 208–219. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2011.11.001.
- Wenjie Zheng; Xingsheng Jin; Yoichi Azuma; Qiongying Wang; Kazunori Miyata; Xing Xu (2018). "The most basal ankylosaurine dinosaur from the Albian–Cenomanian of China, with implications for the evolution of the tail club". Scientific Reports. 8: Article number 3711. doi:10.1038/s41598-018-21924-7.
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