The Subashi Formation () is a

Late Cretaceous The Late Cretaceous (100.5–66 Ma) is the younger of two epochs into which the Cretaceous Period is divided in the geologic time scale. Rock strata from this epoch form the Upper Cretaceous Series. The Cretaceous is named after ''creta'', ...

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Campanian The Campanian is the fifth of six ages of the Late Cretaceous Epoch on the geologic timescale of the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS). In chronostratigraphy, it is the fifth of six stages in the Upper Cretaceous Series. Campani ...

Maastrichtian The Maastrichtian () is, in the ICS geologic timescale, the latest age (uppermost stage) of the Late Cretaceous Epoch or Upper Cretaceous Series, the Cretaceous Period or System, and of the Mesozoic Era or Erathem. It spanned the interv ...

)Xi et al., 2018 formation from the

Xinjiang Xinjiang, SASM/GNC: ''Xinjang''; zh, c=, p=Xīnjiāng; formerly romanized as Sinkiang (, ), officially the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (XUAR), is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China (PRC), located in the northwest ...

Autonomous Region of western China.Subashi Formation
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Dong Zhiming Dong Zhiming ( Chinese: 董枝明, Pinyin: ''Dǒng Zhimíng''; born January 1937) is a Chinese vertebrate paleontologist formerly employed at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) in Beijing. He began working at th ...

in 1977, the formation contains remains of ''

Tarbosaurus ''Tarbosaurus'' ( ; meaning "alarming lizard") is a genus of tyrannosaurid dinosaur that flourished in Asia about 70 million years ago, at the end of the Late Cretaceous Period, considered to contain a single known species, ''Tarbosauru ...

'' which were initially described as a separate taxon ''

Shanshanosaurus ''Tarbosaurus'' ( ; meaning "alarming lizard") is a genus of tyrannosaurid dinosaur that flourished in Asia about 70 million years ago, at the end of the Late Cretaceous Period, considered to contain a single known species, ''Tarbosaurus bat ...

huoyanshanensis''. Remains of a sauropod, likely ''

Nemegtosaurus ''Nemegtosaurus'' (meaning 'Reptile from the Nemegt') was a sauropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Period of what is now Mongolia. It was named after the Nemegt Basin in the Gobi Desert, where the remains — a single skull — were found. T ...

'', and a hadrosaurid, likely '' Jaxartosaurus'', have also been found. The formation is located in the

Flaming Mountains The Flaming Mountains () or Huoyan Mountains, are barren, eroded, red sandstone hills in the Tian Shan of Xinjiang. They lie near the northern rim of the Taklamakan Desert and east of the city of Turpan. Their striking gullies and trenches caused b ...

region of Xinjiang, north of the

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. It is not far from

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 of

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 ...

,Glut, 2001 and is presumably named after the village of Subashi (), which is located some to the west of Lianmuqin, in Tuyugou Township ( 吐峪沟乡).

Fossil content

The following fossils were reported from the formation: ;Reptiles * '' Euoplocephalus sp.''Zhai et al., 1978 * '' Gravemys hutchisoni''Yeh, 1974 * '' Jaxartosaurus'' * '' Nemegtosaurus pachi''Dong, 1977 - "Teeth.""Table 13.1," in Weishampel et al., 2004, p.271 - (sauropod indet.) * '' Tarbosaurus bataar'' * ''

Tyrannosaurus turpanensis ''Tarbosaurus'' ( ; meaning "alarming lizard") is a genus of tyrannosaurid dinosaur that flourished in Asia about 70 million years ago, at the end of the Late Cretaceous Period, considered to contain a single known species, ''Tarbosaurus bata ...

'' - "Teeth and sacral vertebrae.""Table 5.1," in Weishampel et al., 2004, p.114 - (tyrannosauroid indet.) * Coelurosauria indet.Shen & Mateer, 1992 * Titanosauridae indet.Dong, 1997 ;Fossil eggs * ''

Elongatoolithus andrewsi ''Elongatoolithus'' is an oogenus of dinosaur eggs found in the Late Cretaceous formations of China and Mongolia. Like other elongatoolithids, they were laid by small theropods (probably oviraptorosaurs), and were cared for and incubated by ...

''Dauphin, 1994 * ''

Elongatoolithus elongatus ''Elongatoolithus'' is an oogenus of dinosaur eggs found in the Late Cretaceous formations of China and Mongolia. Like other elongatoolithids, they were laid by small theropods (probably oviraptorosaurs), and were cared for and incubated by ...

'' * ''

Ovaloolithus turpanensis ''Ovaloolithus'' is an oogenus of dinosaur egg. Eggs of the genus have been found in China, Mongolia and Utah. Species Oospecies attributed to this genus include:Subashi (lost city) The Subashi Temple is a ruined Buddhist temple near Kucha in the Taklamakan Desert, on the ancient Silk Road, in Xinjiang, Western China. The city was partly excavated by the Japanese archaeologist Count Otani. Other famous sites nearby are the ...

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