Qigu Formation


The Qigu Formation is a Late Jurassic geologic formation in the Southern Junggar Basin in China. Indeterminate Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation, including theropod teeth and a fibula. a stegosaur dorsal vertebra and a Eusauropod tooth. Xinjiangtitan was erroneously thought to be from this formation, but it is actually from the older Qiketai Formation, which is in a different basin. The term "Qigu Formation" is also used to sediments of equivalent age in the Turpan Basin, but this might better be treated as a separate formation. It is laterally equivalent to the Shishugou Formation. The remains of indeterminate rhamphorhynchid pterosaurs have been recovered from the formation.

Description

Basin history

Depositional environment

Fossil content

The "enormous" accumulation of Jurassic freshwater turtle fossils belonging to the genus Annemys, discovered in 2009 at a site nicknamed "Mesa Chelonia" in Shanshan County, Xinjiang is thought to likely belong to the Qigu Formation.
Among others, the following fossils have been found in the formation:

Flora

Other fossils

Paleoecology

Regional correlations