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Early Cretaceous The Early Cretaceous (geochronology, geochronological name) or the Lower Cretaceous (chronostratigraphy, chronostratigraphic name) is the earlier or lower of the two major divisions of the Cretaceous. It is usually considered to stretch from 143.1 ...

geologic formation composed of "interbedded red green and yellow variegated

mudstone Mudstone, a type of mudrock, is a fine-grained sedimentary rock whose original constituents were clays or muds. Mudstone is distinguished from ''shale'' by its lack of fissility.Blatt, H., and R.J. Tracy, 1996, ''Petrology.'' New York, New York, ...

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siltstone Siltstone, also known as aleurolite, is a clastic sedimentary rock that is composed mostly of silt. It is a form of mudrock with a low clay mineral content, which can be distinguished from shale by its lack of fissility. Although its permeabil ...

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Dinosaur Dinosaurs are a diverse group of reptiles of the clade Dinosauria. They first appeared during the Triassic Geological period, period, between 243 and 233.23 million years ago (mya), although the exact origin and timing of the #Evolutio ...

remains have been recovered from it.Weishampel et al., 2004, pp.517-607 The formation is named after Lianmuqin

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Shanshan County Shanshan County ( zh, s=鄯善县) as the official romanized name, also transliterated from Uyghur as Piqan County (; zh, s=皮羌县, links=no), is a county within the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and is under the administrative jurisdict ...

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Vertebrate paleofauna

Dinosaurs

Pterosaurs

Plesiosaurs

Crurotarsans

Turtles

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* {{cite book , editor-last=Weishampel , editor-first=David B. , editor-link=David B. Weishampel , editor-last2=Dodson , editor-first2=Peter , editor-link2=Peter Dodson , editor-last3=Osmólska , editor-first3=Halszka , editor-link3=Halszka Osmólska , year=2004 , title=The Dinosauria , edition=2nd , url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vtZFDb_iw40C , publisher=Berkeley: University of California Press , pages=1–880 , access-date=2019-02-21 , isbn=0-520-24209-2 Geologic formations of China Lower Cretaceous Series of Asia Cretaceous China Barremian Stage Aptian Stage Albian Stage Mudstone formations of China Sandstone formations Lacustrine deposits Paleontology in Xinjiang