Tongfosi Formation

The Tongfosi Formation is a Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) geologic formation of the Yanji Group in China.[1] Fossil ornithopod tracks of iguanodontids and theropods have been reported from the fluvial sandstones of the formation.[2][3]

Tongfosi Formation Stratigraphic range: Cenomanian ~99–94 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Type	Geological formation
Unit of	Yanji Group
Lithology
Primary	Sandstone
Location
Coordinates	42.9°N 129.2°E
Approximate paleocoordinates	49.5°N 121.1°E
Region	Jilin
Country	China
Tongfosi Formation (China) Tongfosi Formation (Jilin)

See also

• List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations
  • List of stratigraphic units with ornithischian tracks
    • Ornithopod tracks

References

1. Tongfosi Formation in the Paleobiology Database
2. Matsukawa et al., 1995
3. Weishampel et al., 2004, pp.517-607

Bibliography

• Weishampel, David B.; Peter Dodson, and Halszka Osmólska (eds.). 2004. The Dinosauria, 2nd edition, 1–880. Berkeley: University of California Press. Accessed 2019-02-21. ISBN 0-520-24209-2
• Matsukawa, M.; M. Futakami; M.G. Lockley; C. Peiji; C. Jinhua; C. Zhenyao, and U.L. Bolotsky. 1995. Dinosaur footprints from the Lower Cretaceous of eastern Manchuria, northeastern China: implications for the recognition of an ornithopod ichnofacies in East Asia. Palaios 10. 3–15.