The Jiaguan Formation is a

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in China. Its lithology is described as consisting of "alternating thick purple red sandstone layers and thin purple red mudstone and siltstone layers, and bottom layers of thick conglomerate" Fossil

ornithopod Ornithopoda () is a clade of ornithischian dinosaurs, called ornithopods (), that started out as small, bipedal running grazers and grew in size and numbers until they became one of the most successful groups of herbivores in the Cretaceous world ...

tracks have been reported from the formation.Weishampel, et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution." Pp. 517-607. The known fossil localities include the Lotus Fortress, the type locality of ''Caririchnium lotus'' and ''Wupus agilis'' ichnotaxa.

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* Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.): The Dinosauria, 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press. 861 pp. . {{China-geologic-formation-stub Lower Cretaceous Series of Asia Barremian Stage Aptian Stage Albian Stage

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