Stratigraphic range: Hettangian-Pliensbachian ~201–183 Ma
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Type
Geological formation
Sub-units
Shawan & Zhangjia'ao Members
Underlies
Chuanjie Formation
Overlies
Precambrian slate basement
Thickness
over 300 metres (980 ft)
Lithology
Primary
Siltstone
Other
Sandstone
Location
Coordinates
25°00′N102°06′E / 25.0°N 102.1°E / 25.0; 102.1
Approximate paleocoordinates
34°18′N104°36′E / 34.3°N 104.6°E / 34.3; 104.6
Region
Yunnan
Country
China
Extent
Yunnan Basin
Lufeng Formation (China)
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Lufeng Formation (Yunnan)
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The Lufeng Formation (formerly Lower Lufeng Series) is a Lower Jurassic sedimentary rock formation found in Yunnan, China. It has two units: the lower Dull Purplish Beds/Shawan Member are of Hettangian age, and Dark Red Beds/Zhangjia'ao Member are of Sinemurian age.[1] It is known for its fossils of early dinosaurs. The Dull Purplish Beds have yielded the possible therizinosaur Eshanosaurus, the possible theropod Lukousaurus, and the "prosauropods" "Gyposaurus" sinensis, Lufengosaurus, Jingshanosaurus, and Yunnanosaurus. Dinosaurs discovered in the Dark Red Beds include the theropod Sinosaurus triassicus, the "prosauropods" "Gyposaurus", Lufengosaurus, and Yunnanosaurus, indeterminate remains of sauropods, and the early armored dinosaurs Bienosaurus and Tatisaurus.[2]
^Luo, Z., and X.-C. Wu. 1994. The small tetrapods of the Lower Lufeng Formation, Yunnan, China; pp. 251–270 in N. C. Fraser and H.-D.Sues (eds.), In the Shadow of the Dinosaurs. Cambridge University Press, New York
The LufengFormation (formerly Lower Lufeng Series) is a Lower Jurassic sedimentary rock formation found in Yunnan, China. It has two units: the lower...
purported ankylosaurian dinosaur Bienosaurus lufengensis from the Lower LufengFormation of Yunnan, China". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 64 Alifanov, V. R...
kilograms (660 lb) in body mass. Fossils of the animal were found at the LufengFormation, in the Yunnan Province of China. The composite term Sinosaurus comes...
genus of ornithischian dinosaur from the Early Jurassic from the Lower LufengFormation in Yunnan Province in China. Little is known as the remains are fragmentary...
name is a reference to the LufengFormation. The holotype specimen was recovered on 12 October 2007 from the LufengFormation of Yunnan, which is noted...
thyreophoran dinosaur from the Lower Jurassic (probably Sinemurian) Lower LufengFormation in Yunnan Province in China. In 1938, Bian Meinian, known in the West...
first Yunnanosaurus skeletons in the upper Zhangjiawa Member of the LufengFormation of Yunnan, China, dating to the Sinemurian stage of the Early Jurassic...
juvenile–subadult massospondylid specimen from the Lower Jurassic LufengFormation (Yunnan, China), increasing known diversity of massospondylids from...
the late 1930s by geologist Bien Meinian in the Lower LufengFormation at Shawan, near Lufeng in the Yunnan Province of China. From 1938 onwards, Meinian...
partial lower jaw with teeth (IVPP V11579) from the Early Jurassic-aged LufengFormation in Yunnan, and concluded that this specimen represented the oldest...
the lower member of the "Upper Lufeng" as opposed to the underlying "Lower Lufeng" now referred to as the LufengFormation. Tracks of theropods and sauropods...
genus of "prosauropod" dinosaur which existed in what is now Lower LufengFormation, China during the lower Jurassic period. It was first named by Sekiya...
Jurassic Period. Fossils of this genus have been found in the Lower LufengFormation, Yunnan Province, southern China. Identified from the holotype CMY...
silty mudstone, belong to the Early Jurassic Shawan Member of the LufengFormation, which has been tentatively dated to being Hettangian in age. Xingxiulong...
stage of the Early Jurassic approximately 195 million years ago in the LufengFormation in what is now the Yunnan province in south-western China (25°12′N...
Zhao in 1985. It is known from fossils found in the Fengjiahe Formation (or the Lower Lufeng Series), including pelvic, hind limb, and vertebral material...
protosuchian crocodyliform. Fossils are known from the Early Jurassic Lower LufengFormation in Yunnan, China and belong to the type and only species, P. hsui....
material of Anomaloglossa porca from the Ordovician (Sandbian) Pingliang Formation (China), extending known geographical range of the species from Gondwana...
distinctive lachrymal horns, found in the Early Jurassic-age Lower LufengFormation, Yunnan, China and was described by Chung Chien Young in 1940. The...
extinct genus of mammaliamorphs that appears in the fossil record of the LufengFormation of China in the Sinemurian stage of the Early Jurassic period, about...
genus of basal sauropodiform dinosaurs which existed in what is now LufengFormation, Yunnan Province of southern China during the lower Jurassic period...
sphenosuchian (Archosauria: Crocodylomorpha) from the Lower Jurassic LufengFormation, People's Republic of China". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie...
closely related to Lufengia, and is the largest tritylodont from the LufengFormation in China. Bienotherium had four incisors, no canines, and back molar-like...
indeterminate remains of Clevosaurus from the Early Jurassic (Sinemurian) aged LufengFormation of Yunnan, China. Rhynchocephalians are noticeably absent from younger...
tritylodonts from the Sinemurian (Early Jurassic) Zhangjiawa Member of the LufengFormation of Yunnan, China. This taxon was recovered from the upper dark red...
Upper Elliot and Clarens Formations of southern Africa, the Kayenta Formation of North America, and the Lower LufengFormation of China. A Hettangian age...
nearly complete theropod skeleton (KMV 8701) was discovered in the LufengFormation, in Yunnan Province, China, in 1987. It is similar to Dilophosaurus...
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