Wangshi Group Explained

Wangshi Group
Type:	Group
Age:	Coniacian-Campanian ~
Period:	Santonian
Prilithology:	Conglomerate
Otherlithology:	Marl
Region:	Shandong
Coordinates:	36.9°N 120.7°W
Paleocoordinates:	37.3°N 111°W
Unitof:	Jiaolai Basin
Subunits:	Linjiazhuang, Jiangjunding, Xingezhuang, Hongtuya, Jingangkou & Shijiatun Formations
Underlies:	Jiaozhou Formation
Overlies:	Qingshan Group

The Wangshi Group is a geological Group in Shandong, China whose strata date back to the Coniacian to Campanian stages of the Late Cretaceous.^[1] Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the group.^[2]

Vertebrate paleofauna

Dinosaurs

Dinosaurs of the Wangshi Group
Genus	Species	Location	Stratigraphic position	Material	Notes	Images
Anomalipes^[3]	A. zhaoi			"Partial left hindlimb"	A caenagnathid oviraptorosaur
Chingkankousaurus^[4]	C. fragilis				Nomen dubium
Ischioceratops^[5]	I. zhuchengensis
Laiyangosaurus^[6]	L. youngi		Jingangkou Formation		A saurolophine hadrosaur
Micropachycephalosaurus	M. hongtuyanensis			"Partial mandible, associated postcranial fragments."^[7]
Pinacosaurus^[8]	P. cf. grangeri	Shandong		"A well-preserved sacrum with the attached right ilium and part of the presacral rod, caudal vertebrae, a left femur and a dermal scute."	Remains collected in 1923 by H. C. T’an and Otto Zdansky and mentioned by Buffetaut (1995)^[9]
Shantungosaurus	S. giganteus		Xingezhuang Formation
Sinoceratops	S. zhuchengensis		Xingezhuang Formation
Tanius	T. chingkankouensis		Jingangkou Formation
	T. laiyangensis		Jingangkou Formation		Nomen dubium
	T. sinensis		Jingangkou Formation
Tsintaosaurus	T. spinorhinus		Jingangkou Formation	"Isolated skull and postcranial elements from at least [five] individuals."^[10]
Tyrannosaurus	"T." zhuchangensis^[11]				Nomen dubium
Zhuchengtyrannus^[12]	Z. magnus		Xingezhuang Formation
Zhuchengceratops	Z. inexpectus		Xingezhuang Formation
Zhuchengtitan^[13]	Z. zangjiazhuangensis		Xingezhuang Formation	"a single humerus"	A titanosaur closely related to Opisthocoelicaudia

Fossil eggs

The following fossil eggs were recovered from the Jingangkou Formation of the Wangshi Group.^{[15] [16]}

• Saurischia
  • Elongatoolithidae
    • Elongatoolithus elongatus
• Neornithischia
  • Ovaloolithidae
    • Ovaloolithus chinkangkouensis
    • Ovaloolithus laminadermus

See also

• List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations

References

Bibliography

• Book: Weishampel . David B. . Dodson . Peter . Osmólska . Halszka . 2004 . The Dinosauria, 2nd edition . Berkeley: University of California Press . 2019-02-21 . 0-520-24209-2.
• Hu, Cheng, Pang and Fang (2001). Shantungosaurus giganteus: [3 front matter] + ii + 139 pp. + 18 plates (in Chinese with English abstract; publisher's name not translated)
• Young . C.-C . 1954 . Fossil reptilian eggs from Laiyang, Shantung, China . . 3 . 505–522.

Notes and References

1. https://paleobiodb.org/classic/displayStrata?geological_group=Wangshi&group_formation_member=Wangshi Wangshi Group
2. Weishampel et al., 2004, pp.593-600
3. Yilun Yu; Kebai Wang; Shuqing Chen; Corwin Sullivan; Shuo Wang; Peiye Wang; Xing Xu (2018). "A new caenagnathid dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous Wangshi Group of Shandong, China, with comments on size variation among oviraptorosaurs". Scientific Reports. 8: Article number 5030.
4. "48.9 Shandong, People's Republic of China; 1. Wangshi Group," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 598.
5. Yiming He, Peter J. Makovicky, Kebai Wang, Shuqing Chen, Corwin Sullivan, Fenglu Han, Xing XuMichael J. Ryan, David C. Evans, Philip J. Currie, Caleb M. Brown and Don Brinkman (2015). "A New Leptoceratopsid (Ornithischia, Ceratopsia) with a Unique Ischium from the Upper Cretaceous of Shandong Province, China".
6. Zhang, J.L.; Wang, X.; Wang, Q.; Jiang, S.; Cheng, X.; Ning, L.; Qiu, R. (2017). "A new saurolophine hadrosaurid (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) from the Upper Cretaceous of Shandong, China" (PDF). Annals of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences.
7. "Table 21.1," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 466.
8. Listed as "Pinacosaurus cf. grangeri" in "48.9 Shandong, People's Republic of China; 1. Wangshi Group," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 598.
9. Buffetaut . Eric . 1995 . An ankylosaurid dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of Shandong (China) . Geological Magazine . 132 . 6 . 683–692 . 10.1017/s0016756800018914 . 1995GeoM..132..683B . 0016-7568.
10. "Table 20.1," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 442.
11. Listed as Tyrannosaurus in Hu, Cheng, Pang and Fang (2001). but likely a different genus.
12. David W. E. Hone . Kebai Wang . Corwin Sullivan . Xijin Zhao . Shuqing Chen . Dunjin Li . Shuan Ji . Qiang Ji . Xing Xu . 2011 . A new, large tyrannosaurine theropod from the Upper Cretaceous of China . Cretaceous Research . 32 . 4 . 495–503 . 10.1016/j.cretres.2011.03.005 . 2011CrRes..32..495H .
13. Mo, J.; Wang, K.; Chen, S.; Wang, P.; Xu, X. (2017). "A new titanosaurian sauropod from the Late Cretaceous strata of Shandong Province". Geological Bulletin of China. 36 (9): 1501–1505.
14. L. Li, H. Tong, K. Wang, S. Chen, and X. Xu. 2013. Lindholmemydid turtles (Cryptodira: Testudinoidea) from the Late Cretaceous of Shandong Province, China. Annales de Paléontologie 99:243-259
15. https://paleobiodb.org/classic/basicCollectionSearch?collection_no=24757 Jingangkou
16. Young, 1954