Wangshi Group

 ( Geologic Groups Of China ) 

The Wangshi Group (p=Wángshì Qún) is a geological Group in Shandong, China whose strata date back to the Campanian stage of the Late Cretaceous, approximately . Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the group.Weishampel et al., 2004, pp.593-600

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Vertebrate paleofauna

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Dinosaurs

AnomalipesYilun Yu; Kebai Wang; Shuqing Chen; Corwin Sullivan; Shuo Wang; Peiye Wang; Xing Xu (2018). "A new caenagnathid dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous Wangshi Group of Shandong, China, with comments on size variation among oviraptorosaurs". Scientific Reports. 8: Article number 5030.	A. zhaoi			"Partial left hindlimb"	A caenagnathid oviraptorosaur
Chingkankousaurus"48.9 Shandong, People's Republic of China; 1. Wangshi Group," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 598.	C. fragilis				Nomen dubium
IschioceratopsYiming He, Peter J. Makovicky, Kebai Wang, Shuqing Chen, Corwin Sullivan, Fenglu Han, Xing XuMichael J. Ryan, David C. Evans, Philip J. Currie, Caleb M. Brown and Don Brinkman (2015). "A New Leptoceratopsid (Ornithischia, Ceratopsia) with a Unique Ischium from the Upper Cretaceous of Shandong Province, China".	I. zhuchengensis
LaiyangosaurusZhang, J.L.; Wang, X.; Wang, Q.; Jiang, S.; Cheng, X.; Ning, L.; Qiu, R. (2017). "A new saurolophine hadrosaurid (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) from the Upper Cretaceous of Shandong, China" (PDF). Annals of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences.	L. youngi		Jingangkou Formation		A saurolophine hadrosaur
Micropachycephalosaurus	M. hongtuyanensis			"Partial mandible, associated postcranial fragments.""Table 21.1," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 466.
PinacosaurusListed as " Pinacosaurus cf. grangeri" in "48.9 Shandong, People's Republic of China; 1. Wangshi Group," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 598.	P. cf. grangeri	Shandong		"A well-preserved sacrum with the attached right ilium and part of the presacral rod, caudal vertebrae, a left femur and a dermal scute."	Remains collected in 1923 by H. C. T'an and Otto Zdansky and mentioned by Buffetaut (1995)
Shantungosaurus	S. giganteus		Xingezhuang Formation
Sinankylosaurus	S. zhuchengensis		Hongtuya Formation	"Partial right ilium."	Nomen dubium; originally described as an ankylosaur
Sinoceratops	S. zhuchengensis		Xingezhuang Formation
Tanius	T. chingkankouensis		Jingangkou Formation
	T. laiyangensis		Jingangkou Formation		Nomen dubium
	T. sinensis		Jingangkou Formation
Tsintaosaurus	T. spinorhinus		Jingangkou Formation	"Isolated skull and postcranial elements from at least five individuals.""Table 20.1," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 442.
Zhuchengtyrannus	Z. magnus		Xingezhuang Formation
Zhuchengceratops	Z. inexpectus		Xingezhuang Formation
ZhuchengtitanMo, J.; Wang, K.; Chen, S.; Wang, P.; Xu, X. (2017). "A new titanosaurian sauropod from the Late Cretaceous strata of Shandong Province". Geological Bulletin of China. 36 (9): 1501–1505.	Z. zangjiazhuangensis		Xingezhuang Formation	"a single humerus"	A titanosaur closely related to Opisthocoelicaudia

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Other fauna

ShandongemysL. Li, H. Tong, K. Wang, S. Chen, and X. Xu. 2013. Lindholmemydid turtles (Cryptodira: Testudinoidea) from the Late Cretaceous of Shandong Province, China. Annales de Paléontologie 99:243-259	S. dongwuica				A Lindholmemydidae turtle

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Fossil eggs The following fossil eggs were recovered from the Jingangkou Formation of the Wangshi Group. Jingangkou in the Paleobiology DatabaseYoung, 1954

• Saurischia
• Elongatoolithidae
• Elongatoolithus elongatus
• Neornithischia
• Ovaloolithidae
• Ovaloolithus chinkangkouensis
• Ovaloolithus laminadermus

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See also

• List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations

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Bibliography

• (2026). 9780520242098, Berkeley: University of California Press. . ISBN 9780520242098
• Hu, Cheng, Pang and Fang (2001). Shantungosaurus giganteus: 3 + ii + 139 pp. + 18 plates (in Chinese with English abstract; publisher's name not translated)

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