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The Wangshi Group is a geological formation in Shandong, China whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous

Late Cretaceous

The Late Cretaceous is the younger of two epochs into which the Cretaceous period is divided in the geologic timescale. Rock strata from this epoch form the Upper Cretaceous series...

. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.

Dinosaurs

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... s reported from the Wangshi Group
Genus	Species	Location	Stratigraphic position	Material	Notes	Images
Chingkankousaurus Chingkankousaurus Chingkankousaurus is the name given to a fossilized bone fragment that probably belonged to a theropod dinosaur from the late Cretaceous Period Wangshi Series of Shandong province in eastern China. It was identified by Yang Zhongjian Chingkankousaurus (named for the Ch'ing-kang-kou village) is...	C. fragilis				Nomen dubium Nomen dubium In zoological nomenclature, a nomen dubium is a scientific name that is of unknown or doubtful application...
Micropachycephalosaurus Micropachycephalosaurus Micropachycephalosaurus is a monotypic genus of ornithischian dinosaur. It lived in Shandong Province, China during the Late Cretaceous period . The incomplete skeleton of the single specimen was found on a cliff southwest of Laiyang...	M. hongtuyanensis			"Partial mandible, associated postcranial fragments."
Pinacosaurus Pinacosaurus Pinacosaurus is a genus of medium-sized ankylosaur dinosaurs that lived from the late Santonian to the late Campanian stages of the late Cretaceous Period , in Mongolia and China...	P. grangeri
Shantungosaurus Shantungosaurus Shantungosaurus, meaning "Shandong Lizard", is a genus of saurolophine hadrosaurid dinosaurs found in the Late Cretaceous Wangshi Formation of the Shandong Peninsula in China.-Description:...	S. giganteus
Sinoceratops Sinoceratops Sinoceratops is a genus of ceratopsian dinosaur described by Xu Xing and colleagues in 2010. It lived during the Late Cretaceous in what is now China. The type species is S. zhuchengensis....	S. zhuchengensis
Szechuanosaurus Szechuanosaurus Szechuanosaurus is a dubious genus of theropod dinosaur from the Late Jurassic. This dinosaur lived in the Asia in the Oxfordian and early Kimmeridgian . It is based on four undiagnostic teeth from the Shangshaximiao Formation.-Discovery and species:Three species have been assigned to this genus...	S. campi
Tanius Tanius Tanius is a genus of hadrosauroid dinosaur. It lived in the Late Cretaceous of the People's Republic of China.The type species, named and described in 1929 by Carl Wiman, is Tanius sinensis. The generic name honours the Chinese paleontologist Tan Xichou...	T. chingkankouensis
	T. laiyangensis
	T. sinensis
Tarbosaurus Tarbosaurus Tarbosaurus is a genus of tyrannosaurid theropod dinosaur that flourished in Asia about 70 million years ago, at the end of the Late Cretaceous Period. Fossils have been recovered in Mongolia, with more fragmentary remains found further afield in parts of China. Although many species have been...	T. bataar				Remains sometimes attributed to T. bataar were originally named Tyrannosaurus zhuchengensis may or may not belong to Tarbosaurus.
Tsintaosaurus Tsintaosaurus Tsintaosaurus is a genus of hadrosaurid dinosaur from China. It was about long, tall and weighed 3 tons. The type species is T. spinorhinus, first described by C. C...	T. spinorhinus			"Isolated skull and postcranial elements from at least [five] individuals."
Tyrannosaurus Tyrannosaurus Tyrannosaurus meaning "tyrant," and sauros meaning "lizard") is a genus of coelurosaurian theropod dinosaur. The species Tyrannosaurus rex , commonly abbreviated to T. rex, is a fixture in popular culture. It lived throughout what is now western North America, with a much wider range than other...	"T." zhuchangensis				Probably a new genus, or species of Tarbosaurus Tarbosaurus Tarbosaurus is a genus of tyrannosaurid theropod dinosaur that flourished in Asia about 70 million years ago, at the end of the Late Cretaceous Period. Fossils have been recovered in Mongolia, with more fragmentary remains found further afield in parts of China. Although many species have been...
Zhuchengtyrannus Zhuchengtyrannus Zhuchengtyrannus is an extinct genus of carnivorous theropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous period. It is a tyrannosaurine tyrannosaurid which lived during the late Cretaceous period in what is now Zhucheng, Shandong Province of China...	Z. magnus

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