Bayin-Gobi Formation

Bayin-Gobi Formation
Stratigraphic range: Albian

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Bayin-Gobi Formation; Stratigraphic range: Albian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Type	Geological formation
Unit of
Underlies
Overlies	Permian metamorphic basement
Thickness	100-2120 m
Lithology
Primary	Mudstone, Siltstone, Conglomerate
Other	Sandstone
Location
Region	Asia
Country	China
Extent	Inner Mongolia

The Bayin-Gobi Formation or Bayingebi Formation (simplified Chinese: 巴音戈壁组; traditional Chinese: 巴音戈壁組; pinyin: Bāyīn Gēbì Zǔ) is a geological formation in Inner Mongolia, north China, whose strata date back to Albian of the Early Cretaceous period.

Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.^[1]

Vertebrate paleofauna[]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Weishampel, David B; et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution (Early Cretaceous, Asia)." In: Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.): The Dinosauria, 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press. Pp. 563-570. ISBN 0-520-24209-2.
^ "Table 7.1," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 152.
^ Xing Xu; Jonah Choiniere; Qingwei Tan; Roger B.J. Benson; James Clark; Corwin Sullivan; Qi Zhao; Fenglu Han; Qingyu Ma; Yiming He; Shuo Wang; Hai Xing; Lin Tan (2018). "Two Early Cretaceous fossils document transitional stages in alvarezsaurian dinosaur evolution". Current Biology. Online edition. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2018.07.057.
^ Carpenter, K & Ishida, Y (2010). "Early and 'Middle' Cretaceous Iguanodonts in Time and Space,", Journal of Iberian Geology, 36(2);145-164].
^ Xing Xu; Qingwei Tan; Yilong Gao; Zhiqiang Bao; Zhigang Yin; Bin Guo; Junyou Wang; Lin Tan; Yuguang Zhang; Hai Xing (2018). "A large-sized basal ankylopollexian from East Asia, shedding light on early biogeographic history of Iguanodontia". Science Bulletin. in press. doi:10.1016/j.scib.2018.03.016.

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