Minhe Formation
{{Short description|Geological formation in northwestern China}}
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| type = Geological formation
| age = Late Cretaceous,{{cite journal|last=Xi|first=D.|last2=Wan|first2=X.|last3=Li|first3=G.|last4=Li|first4=G.|year=2018|title=Cretaceous integrative stratigraphy and timescale of China|journal=Science China Earth Sciences|volume=61|pages=1–31|doi=10.1007/s11430-017-9262-y}} {{fossilrange|Campanian|Maastrichtian}}
| period = Maastrichtian
| prilithology = Red or variegated clastic rock
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| region = Gansu, Inner Mongolia
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| overlies = Unconformity: Hekou Group
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The Minhe Formation ({{zh|s=民和组|t=民和組|p=Mínhé Zǔ}}) 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.Weishampel, David B; et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution (Late Cretaceous, Asia)." In: Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.): The Dinosauria, 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press. Pp. 593-600. {{ISBN|0-520-24209-2}}.
Vertebrate paleofauna
=Dinosaurs=
A tyrannosaur tooth with a split carina has been recovered from the Minhe Formation in China.
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| colspan="7" align="center" |Dinosaurs reported from the Minhe Formation |
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! Species ! Location ! Stratigraphic position ! Material ! Notes ! Images |
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|style="background:#E6E6E6;" | |style="background:#E6E6E6;" | |style="background:#E6E6E6;" | |style="background:#E6E6E6;" | "Badly preserved cranial and postcranial fragments.""Table 21.1," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 466. |style="background:#E6E6E6;" | | rowspan="99" | |
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| | | | "Teeth, fragmentary jaws and postcrania.""Table 22.1," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 480. | |
| M. sulcidens
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Peishansaurus"3.3 Gansu, People's Republic of China; 1. Minhe Formation," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 598. |style="background:#E6E6E6;" | |style="background:#E6E6E6;" | |style="background:#E6E6E6;" | |style="background:#E6E6E6;" | "Very fragmentary jaw with [one] tooth.""Table 17.1," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 368. |style="background:#E6E6E6;" | |
| Protoceratops"3.3 Gansu, People's Republic of China; 1. Minhe Formation" and "3.3 Nei Mongol Zizhiqu, People's Republic of China; 3. Minhe Formation," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pages 598-599.
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Troodon"3.3 Nei Mongol Zizhiqu, People's Republic of China; 3. Minhe Formation," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pages 598-599. | style="background:#e6e6e6;"| | style="background:#e6e6e6;"| | style="background:#e6e6e6;"| | style="background:#e6e6e6;"| | style="background:#e6e6e6;"| Reclassified as a new genus of pachycephalosaur,Sinocephale and reidentified as provenant from the Ulansuhai Formation |
| VelociraptorListed as "cf. Velociraptor mongoliensis" in "3.3 Nei Mongol Zizhiqu, People's Republic of China; 3. Minhe Formation," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pages 598-599.
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See also
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References
= Bibliography =
- Molnar, R. E., 2001, Theropod paleopathology: a literature survey: In: Mesozoic Vertebrate Life, edited by Tanke, D. H., and Carpenter, K., Indiana University Press, p. 337-363.
- Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.): The Dinosauria, 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press. 861 pp. {{ISBN|0-520-24209-2}}.
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Category:Upper Cretaceous Series of Asia
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