Hekou Group

Hekou Group
Stratigraphic range: Early Cretaceous
Type Geologic group
Location
Country  China

The Hekou Group is a geological formation from which fossil pterosaur tracks have been recovered. Dinosaur body fossils have also been recovered from the Hekou Group, including the iguanodont Lanzhousaurus and the titanosaurs Daxiatitan, Huanghetitan and Yongjinglong. Fossil eggs are rare, but one oogenus, Polyclonoolithus, was discovered in the Hekou Group.[1]

Vertebrate paleofauna

Pterosaurs

Pterosaurs of the Hekou Group
Taxa Presence Description Images

Ichnogenus:
  • Found near Yanguoxia, Gansu Province.[2]
    • Specimens housed at the Dinosaur Tracks Museum, of the University of Colorado at Denver.[2]

    References

    1. ↑ Xie, J.-F., Zhang, S.-K., Jin, X.-S., Li, D.-Q., and Zhou, L.-Q. (2016) "A new type of dinosaur eggs from Early Cretaceous of Gansu Province, China." Vertebrata PalAsiatica, 54(1):1-10.
    2. 1 2 3 Lockley, M.; Harris, J.D.; and Mitchell, L. 2008. "A global overview of pterosaur ichnology: tracksite distribution in space and time." Zitteliana. B28. p. 187-198. ISSN 1612-4138.

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