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Jiufotang Formation

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The Jiufotang Formation (Chinese: 九佛堂组, pinyin: jiǔfótáng zǔ) is an Early Cretaceous geological formation in Chaoyang, Liaoning which has yielded fossils of feathered dinosaurs, primitive birds, pterosaurs, and other organisms (see Jehol Biota). [1]

90 relations: Ankylosauridae, Aptian, Avialae, Avisauridae, Boluochia, Bowfin, Cathayornis, Ceratopsia, Chaoyang, Liaoning, Chaoyangia, Chaoyangopteridae, Chaoyangopterus, Chinese language, Chuanqilong, Confuciusornis, Cuspirostrisornis, Dalianraptor, Dapingfangornis, Dinosaur, Dromaeosauridae, Dsungaripteroidea, Early Cretaceous, Enantiornithes, Eoazhdarcho, Eocathayornis, Eomaia, Eutriconodonta, Geological formation, Gracilornis, Guidraco, Hongshanornithidae, Huaxiapterus, Huoshanornis, Ikechosaurus, Ikrandraco, Istiodactylidae, Jehol Biota, Jeholornis, Jianchang County, Jianchangornis, Jidapterus, Jinanichthys, Largirostrornis, Late Jurassic, Liaoconodon, Liaoning, Liaoningopterus, Liaoxipterus, Liaoxisaurus, Linlongopterus, ..., Lists of dinosaur-bearing stratigraphic units, Longchengornis, Longipteryx, Lycoptera, Microraptor, Nemicolopterus, Nurhachius, Omnivoropteryx, Ornithurae, Osteoglossiformes, Oviraptorosauria, Paddlefish, Parahongshanornis, Peipiaosteus, Philydrosaurus, Pinyin, Psittacosaurus, Pteranodontia, Pteranodontoidea, Pterosaur, Pygostylia, Rapaxavis, Sapeornis, Schizooura, Shenzhoupterus, Similicaudipteryx, Sinamia, Sinodelphys, Sinopterus, Sinornis, Sinotyrannus, Songlingornis, Sturgeon, Tapejaridae, Tyrannosauroidea, Xiangornis, Yanornis, Yixian Formation, Yixianornis, Zhongjianornis. Expand index (40 more) »

Ankylosauridae

Ankylosauridae are a family of the armored dinosaurs within Ankylosauria, and sister group to Nodosauridae.

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Aptian

The Aptian is an age in the geologic timescale or a stage in the stratigraphic column.

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Avialae

Avialae ("bird wings") is a clade of flying dinosaurs containing their only living representatives, the birds.

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Avisauridae

Avisauridae is a family of extinct enantiornithean birds from the Cretaceous period, distinguished by several features of their ankle bones.

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Boluochia

Boluochia zhengi was an enantiornithine bird.

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Bowfin

Bowfin (Amia calva) are basal bony fishes related to gars in the infraclass Holostei.

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Cathayornis

Cathayornis is a genus of enantiornithean birds from the Jiufotang Formation of Liaoning, People's Republic of China.

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Ceratopsia

Ceratopsia or Ceratopia (or; Greek: "horned faces", Κερατόψια) is a group of herbivorous, beaked dinosaurs that thrived in what are now North America, Europe, and Asia, during the Cretaceous Period, although ancestral forms lived earlier, in the Jurassic.

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Chaoyang, Liaoning

Chaoyang is a prefecture-level city of Liaoning province, People's Republic of China.

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Chaoyangia

Chaoyangia is an extinct genus of euornithean birds, containing the single species Chaoyangia beishanensis.

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Chaoyangopteridae

The Chaoyangopteridae are a family of pterosaurs within the Azhdarchoidea.

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Chaoyangopterus

Chaoyangopterus is a genus of azhdarchoid pterodactyloid pterosaur known from a partial skeleton found in Liaoning, China.

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Chinese language

Chinese is a group of related, but in many cases mutually unintelligible, language varieties, forming a branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family.

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Chuanqilong

Chuanqilong is an extinct genus of ankylosaurid dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of China.

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Confuciusornis

Confuciusornis is a genus of primitive crow-sized birds from the Early Cretaceous Yixian and Jiufotang Formations of China, dating from 125 to 120 million years ago.

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Cuspirostrisornis

Cuspirostrisornis is a genus of enantiornithean bird.

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Dalianraptor

Dalianraptor (meaning "Dalian thief") is a genus of prehistoric bird that lived in China about 120 million years ago, during the early Cretaceous Period.

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Dapingfangornis

Dapingfangornis was an enantiornithine bird.

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Dinosaur

Dinosaurs are a diverse group of reptiles of the clade Dinosauria.

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Dromaeosauridae

Dromaeosauridae is a family of feathered theropod dinosaurs.

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Dsungaripteroidea

Dsungaripteroidea is a group of pterosaurs within the suborder Pterodactyloidea.

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Early Cretaceous

The Early Cretaceous/Middle Cretaceous (geochronological name) or the Lower Cretaceous (chronostratigraphic name), is the earlier or lower of the two major divisions of the Cretaceous.

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Enantiornithes

Enantiornithes is a group of extinct avialans ("birds" in the broad sense), the most abundant and diverse group known from the Mesozoic era.

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Eoazhdarcho

Eoazhdarcho is a genus of azhdarchoid pterodactyloid pterosaur named in 2005 by Chinese paleontologists Lü Junchang and Ji Qiang.

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Eocathayornis

Eocathayornis is a genus of enantiornithean birds that was probably more basal or "primitive" than related genera Sinornis and Cathayornis.

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Eomaia

Eomaia ("dawn mother") is a genus of extinct fossil mammals containing the single species Eomaia scansoria, discovered in rocks that were found in the Yixian Formation, Liaoning Province, China, and dated to the Barremian Age of the Lower Cretaceous about.

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Eutriconodonta

Eutriconodonta is an order of early mammals.

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Geological formation

A formation or geological formation is the fundamental unit of lithostratigraphy.

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Gracilornis

Gracilornis is an extinct genus of early bird from the lower Cretaceous (Aptian stage).

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Guidraco

Guidraco (Chin. gui (鬼) "malicious ghost" + Lat. draco "dragon") is an extinct genus of toothed pterodactyloid pterosaur known from the Early Cretaceous of Liaoning Province, northeast China.

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Hongshanornithidae

Hongshanornithidae is an extinct group of early ornithuromorph birds from the early Cretaceous period of China.

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Huaxiapterus

Huaxiapterus (meaning "Hua Xia wing") is a genus of tapejarid pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Aptian-age Lower Cretaceous Jiufotang Formation of Chaoyang, Liaoning, China.

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Huoshanornis

Huoshanornis is a genus of enantiornithine birds which existed in what is now Jiufotang Formation of Western Liaoning Province, China during the early Cretaceous period.

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Ikechosaurus

Ikechosaurus is an extinct genus of choristoderan which existed in China and Mongolia during the Cretaceous period.

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Ikrandraco

Ikrandraco ("Ikran dragon") is a genus of pteranodontoid pterosaur known from Lower Cretaceous rocks in northeastern China.

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Istiodactylidae

Istiodactylidae is a small family of pterosaurs.

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Jehol Biota

The Jehol Biota includes all the living organisms – the ecosystem – of northeastern China between 133 and 120 million years ago.

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Jeholornis

Jeholornis (meaning "Jehol bird") is a genus of avialans that lived between approximately 122 and 120 million years ago during the early Cretaceous Period in China.

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Jianchang County

Jianchang is a county of Huludao City in the southwest of Liaoning province, China.

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Jianchangornis

Jianchangornis a genus of basal ornithuromorph birds.

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Jidapterus

Jidapterus is a genus of azhdarchoid pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Aptian-age Lower Cretaceous Jiufotang Formation of Chaoyang, Liaoning, China.

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Jinanichthys

Jinanichthys is an extinct genus of osteoglossiform which existed in China during the early Cretaceous period.

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Largirostrornis

Largirostrornis is a genus of enantiornithean bird.

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Late Jurassic

The Late Jurassic is the third epoch of the Jurassic period, and it spans the geologic time from 163.5 ± 1.0 to 145.0 ± 0.8 million years ago (Ma), which is preserved in Upper Jurassic strata.

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Liaoconodon

Liaoconodon is an extinct genus of early mammal from the early Cretaceous (early Aptian stage, approximately 120 Ma).

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Liaoning

Liaoning is a province of China, located in the northeast of the country.

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Liaoningopterus

Liaoningopterus, sometimes misspelled "Liaoningopteryx", was a genus of ornithocheirid pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Barremian-Aptian-age Lower Cretaceous Jiufotang Formation of Chaoyang, Liaoning, China.

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Liaoxipterus

Liaoxipterus is a genus of pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Barremian-Aptian-age Lower Cretaceous Jiufotang Formation of Chaoyang, Liaoning, China.

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Liaoxisaurus

Liaoxisaurus is a genus of simodeosaurid choristodere, a type of crocodile-like aquatic reptile.

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Linlongopterus

Linlongopterus is a genus of pteranodontoid pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Early Cretaceous of China.

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Lists of dinosaur-bearing stratigraphic units

This list of dinosaur-bearing rock formations is a list of geologic formations in which dinosaur fossils have been documented.

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Longchengornis

Longchengornis is a genus of enantiornithean birds which lived during the early Cretaceous Period, about 120 mya, and is known from a fossil found in the Jiufotang Formation in Liaoning province, People's Republic of China.

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Longipteryx

Longipteryx is a genus of prehistoric bird which lived during the Early Cretaceous (Aptian stage, 120.3 million years ago).

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Lycoptera

Lycoptera is a genus of fish that lived from the late Jurassic to Cretaceous periods in present-day China, Korea, Mongolia and Siberia.

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Microraptor

Microraptor (Greek, μικρός, mīkros: "small"; Latin, raptor: "one who seizes") was a genus of small, four-winged paravian dinosaurs.

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Nemicolopterus

Nemicolopterus is a genus of pterodactyloid pterosaur described in 2008.

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Nurhachius

Nurhachius is a genus of istiodactylid pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Barremian-Aptian-age Lower Cretaceous Jiufotang Formation of Chaoyang, Liaoning, China.

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Omnivoropteryx

Omnivoropteryx (meaning "omnivorous wing") is a genus of primitive flying bird from the early Cretaceous Upper Jiufotang Formation of China.

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Ornithurae

Ornithurae (meaning "bird tails" in Greek) is a natural group which includes the common ancestor of Ichthyornis, Hesperornis, and all modern birds as well as all other descendants of that common ancestor.

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Osteoglossiformes

Osteoglossiformes (Greek: "bony tongues") is a relatively primitive order of ray-finned fish that contains two sub-orders, the Osteoglossoidei and the Notopteroidei.

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Oviraptorosauria

Oviraptorosaurs ("egg thief lizards") are a group of feathered maniraptoran dinosaurs from the Cretaceous Period of what are now Asia and North America.

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Paddlefish

Paddlefish (family Polyodontidae) are basal Chondrostean ray-finned fish.

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Parahongshanornis

Parahongshanornis is an extinct genus of early bird from the lower Cretaceous (Aptian stage) of what is now Liaoning Province, north-eastern China.

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Peipiaosteus

Peipiaosteus is an extinct genus of prehistoric ray-finned fish, closely related to living sturgeon and paddlefish.

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Philydrosaurus

Philydrosaurus is an extinct genus of choristoderan which existed in China during the Early Cretaceous.

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Pinyin

Hanyu Pinyin Romanization, often abbreviated to pinyin, is the official romanization system for Standard Chinese in mainland China and to some extent in Taiwan.

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Psittacosaurus

Psittacosaurus ("parrot lizard") is a genus of extinct ceratopsian dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of what is now Asia, existing between 126 and 101 million years ago.

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Pteranodontia

Pteranodontia is an extinct group of ornithocheiroid pterosaurs that lived from the Early Cretaceous to the Late Cretaceous (middle Barremian to middle Campanian stages) of Asia, Europe, North America and South America.

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Pteranodontoidea

Pteranodontoidea is an extinct clade of ornithocheiroid pterosaurs from the Early Cretaceous to the Late Cretaceous (middle Barremian to middle Campanian stages) of Asia, Europe, North America and South America.

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Pterosaur

Pterosaurs (from the Greek πτερόσαυρος,, meaning "winged lizard") were flying reptiles of the extinct clade or order Pterosauria.

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Pygostylia

Pygostylia is a group of avialans which includes the Confuciusornithidae and all of the more advanced species, the Ornithothoraces.

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Rapaxavis

Rapaxavis a genus of enantiornithean bird.

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Sapeornis

Sapeornis is a type of avialan which lived during the early Cretaceous period (late Aptian to early Albian, roughly 125-120 mya).

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Schizooura

Schizooura is a genus of basal ornithuromorph bird known from the Early Cretaceous of Jianchang, western Liaoning, China.

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Shenzhoupterus

Shenzhoupterus is a genus of chaoyangopterid azhdarchoid pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Lower Cretaceous Jiufotang Formation of Liaoning, China.

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Similicaudipteryx

Similicaudipteryx, meaning "similar to Caudipteryx" (which itself means "tail feather"), is a genus of theropod dinosaur of the family Caudipteridae.

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Sinamia

Sinamia is an extinct genus of bowfin fish which existed in China during the early Cretaceous period.

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Sinodelphys

Sinodelphys is an extinct mammal from the Early Cretaceous.

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Sinopterus

Sinopterus (meaning "Chinese wing") was a genus of tapejarid pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Aptian-age Lower Cretaceous Jiufotang Formation of Chaoyang, Liaoning, China.

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Sinornis

Sinornis is a genus of enantiornithean birds from the Lower Cretaceous Jiufotang Formation of the People's Republic of China.

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Sinotyrannus

Sinotyrannus (meaning "Chinese tyrant") is a genus of large basal proceratosaurid dinosaur, a relative of tyrannosaurids which flourished in North America and Asia during the Jurassic and early Cretaceous periods.

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Songlingornis

Songlingornis is a prehistoric bird genus from the Early Cretaceous.

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Sturgeon

Sturgeon is the common name for the 27 species of fish belonging to the family Acipenseridae.

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Tapejaridae

Tapejaridae (meaning "the old beings") are a family of pterodactyloid pterosaurs from the Cretaceous period.

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Tyrannosauroidea

Tyrannosauroidea (meaning 'tyrant lizard forms') is a superfamily (or clade) of coelurosaurian theropod dinosaurs that includes the family Tyrannosauridae as well as more basal relatives.

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Xiangornis

Xiangornis is an enantiornithine bird from the Lower Cretaceous of Western Liaoning, China.

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Yanornis

Yanornis (Chinese: 燕鸟) is an extinct genus of fish-eating Early Cretaceous birds.

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Yixian Formation

The Yixian Formation is a geological formation in Jinzhou, Liaoning, People's Republic of China, that spans 11 million years during the early Cretaceous period.

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Yixianornis

Yixianornis (meaning "Yixian Formation bird") is a bird genus from the early Cretaceous period.

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Zhongjianornis

Zhongjianornis is a genus of beaked, pigeon-sized birds from the early Cretaceous period of China.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiufotang_Formation

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