Wangshi Group

Wangshi Group Stratigraphic range: Late Cretaceous
Type	Geological formation
Location
Region	Asia
Country	China

The Wangshi Group (Chinese: 王氏群; pinyin: Wángshì Qún) is a geological formation in Shandong, China whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.^[1]

Vertebrate paleofauna

Dinosaurs

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.

Dinosaurs reported from the Wangshi Group
Genus	Species	Location	Stratigraphic position	Material	Notes	Images
Chingkankousaurus[2]	C. fragilis[2]				Nomen dubium	Sinoceratops Tsintaosaurus
Ischioceratops[3]	I. zhuchengensis
Micropachycephalosaurus[2]	M. hongtuyanensis[2]			"Partial mandible, associated postcranial fragments."[4]
Pinacosaurus[5]	P. grangeri[5]
Shantungosaurus[2]	S. giganteus[2]		Xingezhuang Formation
Sinoceratops	S. zhuchengensis		Xingezhuang Formation
Tanius[2]	T. chingkankouensis[2]		Jingangkou Formation
	T. laiyangensis[2]		Jingangkou Formation
	T. sinensis[2]		Jingangkou Formation
Tsintaosaurus[2]	T. spinorhinus[2]		Jingangkou Formation	"Isolated skull and postcranial elements from at least [five] individuals."[6]
Tyrannosaurus	"T." zhuchangensis[7]				Nomen dubium
Zhuchengtyrannus[8]	Z. magnus[8]		Xingezhuang Formation
Zhuchengceratops	Z. inexpectus		Xingezhuang Formation

See also

• List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations

Footnotes

1. 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.
2. "48.9 Shandong, People's Republic of China; 1. Wangshi Group," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 598.
3. Yiming He, Peter J. Makovicky, Kebai Wang, Shuqing Chen, Corwin Sullivan, Fenglu Han, Xing XuMichael J. Ryan, David C. Evans, Philip J. Currie, Caleb M. Brown and Don Brinkman (2015). "A New Leptoceratopsid (Ornithischia, Ceratopsia) with a Unique Ischium from the Upper Cretaceous of Shandong Province, China".
4. "Table 21.1," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 466.
5. Listed as "Pinacosaurus cf. grangeri" in "48.9 Shandong, People's Republic of China; 1. Wangshi Group," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 598.
6. "Table 20.1," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 442.
7. Listed as Tyrannosaurus in Hu, Cheng, Pang and Fang (2001). but likely a different genus.
8. David W. E. Hone, Kebai Wang, Corwin Sullivan, Xijin Zhao, Shuqing Chen, Dunjin Li, Shuan Ji, Qiang Ji and Xing Xu (2011). "A new, large tyrannosaurine theropod from the Upper Cretaceous of China". Cretaceous Research 32 (4): 495–503. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2011.03.005.

References

• Hu, Cheng, Pang and Fang (2001). Shantungosaurus giganteus: [3 front matter] + ii + 139 pp. + 18 plates [in Chinese with English abstract; publisher's name not translated: ISBN 7-116-03472-2].
• Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.): The Dinosauria, 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press. 861 pp. ISBN 0-520-24209-2.