| Meng-Yin Formation | |
|---|---|
| Stratigraphic range: Berriasian-Valanginian ~145–133 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N | |
| Type | Geological formation |
| Lithology | |
| Primary | Sandstone |
| Other | Siltstone |
| Location | |
| Coordinates | 35°54′N 118°00′E / 35.9°N 118.0°E / 35.9; 118.0 |
| Approximate paleocoordinates | 36°54′N 120°12′E / 36.9°N 120.2°E / 36.9; 120.2 |
| Region | Shandong |
| Country |  China |
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The Meng-Yin or Mengyin Formation (simplified Chinese: 蒙阴组; traditional Chinese: 蒙陰組; pinyin: Méngyīn Zǔ) is a geological formation in Shandong, China, whose strata date back to the Berriasian and Valanginian stages of the Early Cretaceous.
Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation. The type material for the titanosauriform dinosaur Euhelopus was excavated at this formation by Otto Zdansky in 1923, in green/yellow sandstone and green/yellow siltstone that were deposited during the Barremian or Aptian stages of the Cretaceous period, approximately 129 to 113 million years ago.
Both the genus and species of Mengyinaia mengyinensis were named after the formation.
Vertebrate paleofauna
Indeterminate stegosaurid remains have been found in Shandong, China.
| Vertebrates from the Meng-Yin Formation | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Genus | Species | Location | Stratigraphic position | Material | Notes | Images |
| Euhelopus | E. zdanskyi | Shandong | "Skull and partial postcranial skeleton, additional fragmentary skeleton." |  | ||
| Mengshanosaurus | M. minimus | A single juvenile skull | A choristodere belonging to Neochoristodera | |||
Other fossils
- Fish
- Reptiles
- Ordosemys leios
- Shantungosuchus chuhsienensis
- Sinemys lens
- Sinochelys applanata
- ?Dsungaripteridae indet.
- Stegosauria indet.
See also
References
- Mengyin Formation at Fossilworks.org
- Wilson & Upchurch, 2009
- ^ Weishampel et al., 2004, "Dinosaur distribution (Late Jurassic, Asia).", pp.550–552
- T'an, 1923
- "Table 13.1," in Weishampel et al., 2004, p.262
- Fang et al., 2009
- XU, GUANG-HUI; CHANG, MEE-MANN (2009). "Redescription of †Paralycoptera wuiChang & Chou, 1977 (Teleostei: Osteoglossoidei) from the Early Cretaceous of eastern China". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 157 (1): 83–106. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00532.x. ISSN 0024-4082.
- Young, 1961
Bibliography
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- Wilson, Jeffrey A.; Upchurch, Paul (2009), "Redescription and reassessment of the phylogenetic affinities of Euhelopus zdanskyi (Dinosauria:Sauropoda) from the Early Cretaceous of China", Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 7 (2): 199–239, Bibcode:2009JSPal...7..199W, doi:10.1017/S1477201908002691
- Young, C.-C (1961), "On a new crocodile from Chuhsien, E. Shantung", Vertebrata PalAsiatica, 5: 6–10
- Wiman, C (1929), "Die Kreide-Dinosaurier aus Shantung - The Cretaceous dinosaurs of Shantung", Palaeontologia Sinica, Series C, 6: 1–67
- T'an, H. C. (1923), "New research on the Mesozoic and early Tertiary geology in Shantung", Geological Survey of China Bulletin, 5: 95–135