Earth:Seonso Conglomerate
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| Seonso Conglomerate Stratigraphic range: Campanian[1] 81 Ma | |
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| Type | Geological formation |
| Underlies | Seonso Formation |
| Overlies | Unconformity |
| Thickness | 200 meters |
| Lithology | |
| Primary | Conglomerate |
| Other | Sandstone, mudstone |
| Location | |
| Coordinates | [ ⚑ ] : 34°42′N 127°12′E / 34.7°N 127.2°E |
| Paleocoordinates | [ ⚑ ] 39°00′N 115°48′E / 39.0°N 115.8°E |
| Region | South Jeolla |
| Country | South Korea |
| Type section | |
| Named for | Seonso Village, Boseong |
| Named by | Hwang and Cheong, 1968[2] |
  Seonso Conglomerate (South Korea) | |
The Seonso Conglomerate (Korean: 선소역암) is a Late Cretaceous aged geologic formation in South Korea. Fossil of sauropod(Faveoolithus sp.) and ornithopod(Spheroolithus sp.) eggs,[3] Asprosaurus[4] and Koreanosaurus[5] have been reported from the formation.
See also
- List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations
- List of stratigraphic units with dinosaur trace fossils
- Dinosaur eggs
References
- ↑ Kim, Cheong-Bin; Kim, Jeong-Min; Huh, Min (30 September 2008). "Age and Stratification of Dinosaur Eggs and Clutches from Seonso Formation, South Korea". Journal of the Korean earth science society 29 (5): 386–395. doi:10.5467/JKESS.2008.29.5.386.
- ↑ In Jon, Hwang; Chang Sun, Cheong (1968). "Explanatory text of the geological map of Boseong sheet (1:50 000". Geological Survey of Korea: 9.
- ↑ Huh, Min; Zelenitsky, Darla K. (19 September 2002). "Rich dinosaur nesting site from the Cretaceous of Bosung County, Chullanam-do Province, South Korea". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 22 (3): 716–718. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2002)022[0716:RDNSFT2.0.CO;2].
- ↑ Park, Jin-Young; Evans, Susan E.; Huh, Min (July 2015). "The first lizard fossil (Reptilia: Squamata) from the Mesozoic of South Korea". Cretaceous Research 55: 292–302. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2015.03.001. Bibcode: 2015CrRes..55..292P. https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1469877/.
- ↑ Huh, Min; Lee, Dae-Gil; Kim, Jung-Kyun; Lim, Jong-Deock; Godefroit, Pascal (1 January 2011). "A new basal ornithopod dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of South Korea". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 259 (1): 1–24. doi:10.1127/0077-7749/2010/0102. http://doc.rero.ch/record/232922/files/PAL_E4536.pdf.
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