Qiketai
Description
Source: Wikipédia
The Qiketai Formation is a geological formation in Xinjiang, China. It is found within the Turpan-Hami Basin. It is roughly equivalent in age to the nearby Toutunhe Formation and Wucaiwan Formation of the Southern and Northern Junggar Basin, respectively. Tuffites within the unit have been dated to the Callovian stage of the Jurassic approximately 164.6 ± 1.4 ma. The dinosaur Xinjiangtitan is known from the formation.
Découvertes
Source: The Paleobiology Database
Site(s) correspondant(s) à cette formation: 1
Shanshan, Piqan : Xinjiang - Piqan Publication(s)
La base comprend 2 publication(s).
Source: The Paleobiology Database
- ↑1 2 W.-H. Wu, C.-F. Zhou, and O. Wings, T. Sekiya, Z.-M. Dong. 2013. A new gigantic sauropod dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic of Shanshan, Xinjiang. Global Geology 32(3):437-446
- ↑1 M. W. Maisch and A. T. Matzke. 2019. First record of a eusauropod (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) from the Upper Jurassic Qigu-Formation (southern Junggar Basin, China), and a reconsideration of Late Jurassic sauropod diversity in Xinjiang. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 291(1):109-117 (https://doi.org/10.1127/njgpa/2019/0792)
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