Kuangyuan Series Explained

Kuangyuan Series
Type:	Geological formation
Age:	Late Jurassic, Oxfordian-?Tithonian
Region:	Guangyuan, Sichuan
Country:	China

The Kuangyuan Series is a Late Jurassic (Oxfordian-?Tithonian) geologic formation in Sichuan (Szechuan), China. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.^[1]

Paleofauna

• Chienkosaurus ceratosauroides - "Isolated teeth."^[2]
• Sanpasaurus yaoi - "Fragmentary postcranium."^[3]
• ?Szechuanosaurus campi - "Teeth from multiple specimens"^[2]
• Sinocoelurus fragilis - "Isolated teeth."^[2]

See also

• List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations
  • List of stratigraphic units with indeterminate dinosaur fossils

References

• Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.): The Dinosauria, 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press. 861 pp. .

Notes and References

1. Weishampel, et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution." Pp. 517-607.
2. "Table 4.1," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 78.
3. "Table 20.1," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 443.