Dapuka Group
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The Dapuka Group is a geological formation in Asia. It dates back to the Middle Jurassic
Middle Jurassic
The Middle Jurassic is the second epoch of the Jurassic Period. It lasted from 176-161 million years ago. In European lithostratigraphy, rocks of this Middle Jurassic age are called the Dogger....

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Vertebrate fauna

Dinosaur
Dinosaur
Dinosaurs are a diverse group of animals of the clade and superorder Dinosauria. They were the dominant terrestrial vertebrates for over 160 million years, from the late Triassic period until the end of the Cretaceous , when the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event led to the extinction of...

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Taxa Presence Description Images

Genus:
  • Megalosaurus
    Megalosaurus
    Megalosaurus is a genus of large meat-eating theropod dinosaurs of the Middle Jurassic period of Europe...

  1. "Megalosaurus" cachuensis.
  • Geographically located in Xinjiang
    Xinjiang
    Xinjiang is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China. It is the largest Chinese administrative division and spans over 1.6 million km2...

     Uyghur Autonomous Region, China.


  • Genus:
    • Ngexisaurus
      Ngexisaurus
      "Ngexisaurus" is the informal name given to an as yet undescribed genus of dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic. It was a coelurosaur which lived in what is now China. The type species, "Ngexisaurus dapukaensis", was coined by Zhao in 1983...

    1. N. cachuensis.
  • Geographically located in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China.

  • Infraorder:
    • Sauropoda
      Sauropoda
      Sauropoda , or the sauropods , are an infraorder of saurischian dinosaurs. They had long necks, long tails, small heads , and thick, pillar-like legs. They are notable for the enormous sizes attained by some species, and the group includes the largest animals to have ever lived on land...

    1. Unnamed genus.
  • Geographically located in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China.

  • Infraorder:
    • Stegosauria
      Stegosauria
      Known colloquially as stegosaurs, the Stegosauria are a group of herbivorous dinosaurs of the Jurassic and Early Cretaceous Periods, being found mostly in the Northern Hemisphere, predominantly in what is now North America and China....

    1. Possible unnamed stegosaur.
  • Geographically located in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China.
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