Minhe Formation | |
Type: | Geological formation |
Age: | Late Cretaceous,[1] |
Period: | Maastrichtian |
Prilithology: | Red or variegated clastic rock |
Region: | Gansu, Inner Mongolia |
Overlies: | Unconformity: Hekou Group |
The Minhe Formation is a geological formation in northwestern China, whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous period.
Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.[2]
A tyrannosaur tooth with a split carina has been recovered from the Minhe Formation in China.
Dinosaurs reported from the Minhe Formation | ||||||
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Genus | Species | Location | Stratigraphic position | Material | Notes | Images |
Heishansaurus | H. pachycephalus |
| "Badly preserved cranial and postcranial fragments."[3] | |||
Microceratus | M. gobiensis |
| "Teeth, fragmentary jaws and postcrania."[4] | |||
M. sulcidens |
| "Tooth." | ||||
Peishansaurus[5] | P. philemys |
| "Very fragmentary jaw with [one] tooth."[6] | |||
Protoceratops[7] | P. andrewsi |
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Troodon[8] | T. bexelli | Inner Mongolia | Reclassified as a new genus of pachycephalosaur,Sinocephale and reidentified as provenant from the Ulansuhai Formation | |||
Velociraptor[9] | V. mongoliensis |
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