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composed of "interbedded red green and yellow variegated mudstones and

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.Blatt ''et al.'' 1980, ...

s".Lucas, Spencer G, Chinese Fossil vertebrates, Pp. 158-159, New York, Columbia University Press, .

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

Lianmuqin Lianmuqin (, Uyghur: ) is a town in Shanshan County, Xinjiang. It is located on China National Highway 312 about 20 km west of Shanshan Town (Shanshan County's county seat), on the way to Turpan. Located in the northern foothills of the Flaming ...

Town A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than city, cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world. Origin and use The word "town" shares ...

Shanshan County Shanshan County () as the official romanized name, also transliterated from Uyghur as Piqan County (; ), is a county within the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and is under the administrative jurisdiction of the prefecture-level city of Turpan ...

, Xinjiang.

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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 Sandstone formations Lacustrine deposits Paleontology in Xinjiang

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Crurotarsans

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