Xinminbao Group

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Xīnmínbǎo Group
新民堡群
Stratigraphic range: Late Barremian-Aptian
TypeGeological formation
Sub-units, , Xiagou Formation,
Lithology
PrimaryConglomerate, siltstone, mudstone
OtherSandstone
Location
RegionEast Asia
Country China
 Mongolia

The Xīnmínbǎo Group (Chinese: 新民堡群; pinyin: Xīnmínbǎo qún) is a group of geological formations in north central China. They occur across a large depression between the Altai mountains of Mongolia to the north and the Qilian mountains of the Qinghai Plateau to the south, in the (公婆泉) and (算井子) basins, and also in the neighbouring Jiuquan Basin.

Both of these areas are inland basins consisting of fluvial (river), lacustrine (lake), and intermontane (between mountains) alluvial fan (floodplain) sediments that were deposited during the Early Cretaceous, probably during the Aptian or possibly late Barremian stage, when the climate was semi-arid and subtropical.

The group has been visited by many expeditions including the Silk Road dinosaur expedition of 1992 which concentrated on the area around Mazong Shan.

Geology[]

The group is made up of three main formations.[citation needed]

Chijinbao Formation[]

This consists of a lower red unit of coarse conglomerates grading to fine sandstones representing river channel to alluvial fan deposits, and an upper unit of red clastic sediments from either overbank deposits in a meandering fluvial environment, or accumulation in a shallow lacustrine or paludal (marsh) environment.[citation needed]

Digou Formation[]

This consists of grey siltstones and calcareous mudstones comprising two sequences of fluvio-lacustrine sedimentation with some alluvial fan and littoral (lake-shore) deposits.[citation needed]

Zhonggou Formation[]

This consists of red siltstones and mudstones in a series of upwardly coarsening cycles of lacustrine sediments.[citation needed]

Vertebrate fauna[]

Ceratopsians[]

Ceratopsians reported from the Xinminbao Group
Genus Species Location Stratigraphic position Material Notes Images

Archaeoceratops

Archaeoceratops oshimai

"[Two] individuals lacking forelimbs."[1]

Archaeoceratops
Auroraceratops

Auroraceratops

Auroraceratops rugosus

Microceratus

Microceratus gobiensis

Microceratus sulcidens

Psittacosaurus

Psittacosaurus mazongshanensis

"One individual lacking caudal and hindlimb."[1]

Crocodilians[]

Indeterminate crocodilian remains are known from the group.

Crocodilians reported from the Xinminbao Group
Genus Species Location Stratigraphic position Material Notes Images

Chiayusuchus

Chiayusuchus cingulatus

Fish[]

Ray-finned fishes reported from the Xinminbao Group
Genus Species Location Stratigraphic position Material Notes Images

Xixiaichthys tongxinensis

Ornithopods[]

Color key
Taxon Reclassified taxon Taxon falsely reported as present Dubious taxon or junior synonym Ichnotaxon Ootaxon Morphotaxon
Notes
Uncertain or tentative taxa are in small text; crossed out taxa are discredited.
Ornithopods reported from the Xinminbao Group
Genus Species Location Stratigraphic position Material Notes Images

Equijubus

Equijubus normani

"Skull and partial postcranial skeleton."[2]

(both this and Probactrosaurus are properly hadrosauroids rather than hadrosaurids)

Gongpoquansaurus[3]

Gongpoquansaurus mazongshanensis

"Partial skull and postcranial skeleton."[4]

Siluosaurus

Siluosaurus zhangqiani

"Teeth."[5]

Nomen dubium, tentatively classified as a Hypsilophodontid.

Pterosaurs[]

Pterosaurs reported from the Xinminbao Group
Genus Species Location Stratigraphic position Material Notes Images

Noripterus

Indeterminate

Noripterus

Saurischians[]

Saurischians reported from the Xinminbao Group
Genus Species Location Stratigraphic position Material Notes Images

Asiatosaurus

Asiatosaurus mongoliensis

Beishanlong
Sinornithoides

Beishanlong

Beishanlong grandis

A deinocheirid ornithomimosaur.

Chiayusaurus

C. lacustris

Gobititan

Gobititan shenzhouensis

"Nanshiungosaurus"

"Nanshiungosaurus bohlini"

"[Sixteen] cervical and dorsal vertebrae."[6][7]

This species does not belong to Nanshiungosaurus.[7][8]

Sinornithoides

Indeterminate

Thyreophorans[]

Indeterminate ankylosaur remains are known from the group.

Color key
Taxon Reclassified taxon Taxon falsely reported as present Dubious taxon or junior synonym Ichnotaxon Ootaxon Morphotaxon
Notes
Uncertain or tentative taxa are in small text; crossed out taxa are discredited.
Thyreophorans of the Xinminbao Group
Genus Species Location Stratigraphic position Abundance Notes

Stegosaurides

Stegosaurides excavatus

(nomen dubium)

Turtles[]

Turtles of the Xinminbao Group
Genus Species Location Stratigraphic position Abundance Notes

Tsaotanemys rugosus

See also[]

  • List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b "Table 22.1," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 479.
  2. ^ "Table 19.1," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 415.
  3. ^ H.-l. You et al. (in press). "Gongpoquansaurus mazongshanensis (Lü, 1997) comb. nov. (Ornithischia: Hadrosauroidea) from the Early Cretaceous of Gansu Province, northwestern China". In David A. Eberth and David C. Evans (eds). Hadrosaurs: Proceedings of the International Hadrosaur Symposium. Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-01385-9. Check date values in: |date= (help)
  4. ^ "Table 19.1," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 417.
  5. ^ "Table 18.1," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 396.
  6. ^ Dong, Z.; You, H. (1997). "A new segnosaur from Mazhongshan Area, Gansu Province, China". In Dong, Z. M. (ed.). Sino-Japanese Silk Road Dinosaur Expedition. Beijing: China Ocean Press. pp. 90−95.
  7. ^ Jump up to: a b Zanno, L. E. (2010). "A taxonomic and phylogenetic re-evaluation of Therizinosauria (Dinosauria: Maniraptora)". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 8 (4): 503−543. doi:10.1080/14772019.2010.488045.
  8. ^ You, H.; Morschhauser, E. M.; Li, D.; Dodson, P. (2018). "Introducing the Mazongshan Dinosaur Fauna". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 38 (sup. 1): 1−11. doi:10.1080/02724634.2017.1396995.

Further reading[]

  • A new Psittacosaur (Psittacosaurus mazongshanensis sp. nov.) from Mazongshan area, Ganzu Province. Xu, X. Sino-Japanese Silk Road dinosaur expedition., Dong, Z. (ed). China Ocean press; 48-67 (1997).
  • Biostratigraphy and palaeoenvironment of the dinosaur-bearing sediments in Lower Cretaceous of Mazongshan area, Gansu Province, China. Tang, F., Luo, Z., Zhou, Z., You, H., Georgi, J., Tang, Z., and Wang. X. Cretaceous Research 22, 115-129 (2001).
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