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Fauna

Cephalopod

Cephalopod

The cephalopods are the mollusc class Cephalopoda characterized by bilateral symmetry, a prominent head, and a modification of the mollusk foot, a muscular hydrostat, into the form of cephalopod arms or tentacles....
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Ammonoidea

Neocoleoids

Belemnites

Nautiloidea

Chondrichthyes

Chondrichthyes

Chondrichthyes or cartilaginous fishes are jawed fish with paired Fins, paired nares, scales, two-chambered hearts, and skeletons made of cartilage rather than bone....

• Hexanchidae: Notidanodon lanceolatus, Notorynchus aptiensis

• Iguania
  Iguania
  
  Iguania is the suborder of Squamata that contains the iguanas, chameleons, agamids, and "New World lizards" such as anoles and Phrynosomatidae....
  : Xianglong
  Xianglong
  
  Xianglong is a genus of Cretaceous lizard discovered in the Liaoning Province of People's Republic of China. It is known from Liaoning Paleontological Museum 000666, a single complete skeleton with skin impressions....
  

Dinosaur

Dinosaur

Dinosaurs were the dominant vertebrate animals of Landform ecosystems for over 160 million years, from the late Triassic Period until the end of the Cretaceous Period , when most of them became extinct in the Cretaceous?Tertiary extinction event....
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Bird

Birds are wing, Bipedalismal, endothermic , vertebrate animals that lay egg . There are around 10,000 living species, making them the most numerous tetrapod vertebrates....
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Cerapoda

Cerapoda

Cerapoda is a clade or suborder of the order Ornithischia. They are the sister group of the Thyreophora within the clade Genasauria. They are divided either into two or three groups....

Cerapoda Cerapoda Cerapoda is a clade or suborder of the order Ornithischia. They are the sister group of the Thyreophora within the clade Genasauria. They are divided either into two or three groups....  of the Barremian
Taxa	Presence	Location	Description	Images
Jinzhousaurus Jinzhousaurus Jinzhousaurus is a genus of Hadrosauroidea dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous. Its fossils were found in China. A nearly complete skeleton has been found....		China
Ponerosteus Ponerosteus Ponerosteus is a dubious genus of archosaur which was first identified as "Iguanodon exogirarum" by Antonin Fritsch in 1878 for a specimen from the Cenomanian ....		Czech Republic
Fukuisaurus Fukuisaurus Fukuisaurus is a genus of herbivory dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous. It was an ornithopod which lived in what is now Japan. Remains of Fukuisaurus were discovered in 1990, in Katsuyama, Fukui Prefecture, in rocks from the Kitadani Formation....		Japan
Hypsilophodon Hypsilophodon Hypsilophodon is an ornithopod dinosaur genus from the Early Cretaceous Period of Europe. It was a small bipedal animal with an herbivore or possibly omnivore diet....		England, Portugal
Jeholosaurus Jeholosaurus Jeholosaurus is the name given to a genus of dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Period . It lived in what is now China and its fossils have been found in the Yixian Formation....		China
Cedrorestes Cedrorestes Cedrorestes is a genus of possible basal hadrosaurid dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of Utah. It is based on an incomplete skeleton which was found in the Barremian-age Yellow Cat Member of the Cedar Mountain Formation....		Utah, USA
Valdosaurus Valdosaurus Valdosaurus is a genus of small, bipedal herbivorous ornithopod dinosaur found on the Isle of Wight, elsewhere in Europe, and Africa. It lived during the Early Cretaceous....		Europe, Africa
Dakotadon Dakotadon Dakotadon is a genus of iguanodont dinosaur from the Barremian-age Lower Cretaceous Lakota Formation of South Dakota, United States, known from a partial skull....		South Dakota, USA
Dollodon Dollodon Dollodon is a genus of ornithopod dinosaur that lived in the Barremian and possibly the early Aptian ages of the Early Cretaceous Period of Europe....		Belgium, Germany, England
Iguanodon Iguanodon Iguanodon is a genus of ornithopod dinosaur that lived roughly halfway between the first of the swift bipedalism hypsilophodontids and the ornithopods' culmination in the hadrosaurid dinosaurs....		Europe, Africa, Asia, North America
Siluosaurus Siluosaurus Siluosaurus is a genus of ornithopod dinosaur from the Barremian-Albian-age Lower Cretaceous Xinminbao Group of Gansu, People's Republic of China....		Gansu, China
Hongshanosaurus Hongshanosaurus Hongshanosaurus is a genus of psittacosaurid ceratopsian dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Period of eastern Asia. Although two skulls are the only fossil material known, comparisons with close relatives suggest it was a small, bipedal herbivore with a bony beak on the end of both upper and lower jaws....		Liaoning, China
Psittacosaurus Psittacosaurus Psittacosaurus is a genus of psittacosaurid ceratopsian dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Period of what is now Asia, about 130 to 100 million years ago....		China, Mongolia, Russia, possibly Thailand

Marginocephalia

Marginocephalia

Marginocephalia is a clade of ornithischian dinosaurs that includes the thick-skulled pachycephalosauria, and horned ceratopsians. They were all herbivores, walking on two or four legs, and are characterized by a bony ridge or frill the back of the skull....

Marginocephalia Marginocephalia Marginocephalia is a clade of ornithischian dinosaurs that includes the thick-skulled pachycephalosauria, and horned ceratopsians. They were all herbivores, walking on two or four legs, and are characterized by a bony ridge or frill the back of the skull....  of the Barremian
Taxa	Presence	Location	Description	Images
Stenopelix Stenopelix Stenopelix was a genus of small ornithischian dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of Germany. It was a basal pachycephalosauria from the Barremian faunal stage of the Cretaceous....		Germany
Hongshanosaurus Hongshanosaurus Hongshanosaurus is a genus of psittacosaurid ceratopsian dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Period of eastern Asia. Although two skulls are the only fossil material known, comparisons with close relatives suggest it was a small, bipedal herbivore with a bony beak on the end of both upper and lower jaws....		Liaoning, China
Liaoceratops Liaoceratops Liaoceratops, meaning "Liao Horned Face", is a newly discovered dinosaur believed to be an early cousin to the horned ceratopsians. It lived in the early Cretaceous, some 130 million years ago....		Liaoning, China
Psittacosaurus Psittacosaurus Psittacosaurus is a genus of psittacosaurid ceratopsian dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Period of what is now Asia, about 130 to 100 million years ago....		China, Mongolia, Russia, possibly Thailand

Sauropoda

Sauropoda

Sauropoda , or the sauropods , are an Order or clade of saurischian dinosaurs. They notable for the enormous sizes attained by some species, and the group includes many of the largest animals to have ever lived on land....

Marginocephalia Marginocephalia Marginocephalia is a clade of ornithischian dinosaurs that includes the thick-skulled pachycephalosauria, and horned ceratopsians. They were all herbivores, walking on two or four legs, and are characterized by a bony ridge or frill the back of the skull....  of the Barremian
Taxa	Presence	Location	Description	Images
Cedarosaurus Cedarosaurus Cedarosaurus was a nasal-crested Brachiosauridae dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Period . It was a sauropod which lived in what is now Utah....		Utah, USA
Aragosaurus Aragosaurus Aragosaurus was a genus of sauropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous period of Galve, Teruel, in the province of Arag?n, Spain.Aragosaurus was a large, quadrupedal plant-eating dinosaur, which lived about 130-120 million years ago, in the Hauterivian-Barremian....		Aragón, Spain
Amargasaurus Amargasaurus Amargasaurus is a genus of dicraeosauridae sauropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Period of what is now South America. It was small for a sauropod, reaching 10 meters length....		Neuquén, Argentina
Histriasaurus Histriasaurus Histriasaurus was a genus of dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous . Its fossils were found in Croatia, and described in 1998 by Dalla Vecchia....		Croatia
Eucamerotus Eucamerotus Eucamerotus was a genus of sauropod dinosaur from the Barremian-age Lower Cretaceous Wessex Formation of the Isle of Wight, England. It is known from vertebral remains, and a partial skeleton has been referred, although this has not been accepted....		Isle of Wight, England
Oplosaurus Oplosaurus Oplosaurus was a genus of sauropod dinosaur from the Barremian-age Lower Cretaceous Wessex Formation of the Isle of Wight, England. It is known from a single tooth usually referred to the contemporaneous "wastebasket taxon" Pelorosaurus, although there is no solid evidence for this....		Isle of Wight, England
Amargatitanis Amargatitanis Amargatitanis is a genus of titanosaur sauropod dinosaur from the Barremian-age La Amarga Formation of Neuqu?n, Argentina. It is holotype specimens MACN PV N51, 53, and 34, which were collected in 1983 and consist of six tail vertebrae, a scapula, a femur, and an talus bone, found associated....		Neuquén, Argentina

Theropoda

Theropoda

Theropods are a group of bipedal saurischian dinosaurs. Although they were primarily carnivorous, a number of theropod families evolved herbivore during the Cretaceous Period ....

Theropods of the Barremian
Taxa	Presence	Location	Description	Images
Fukuiraptor Fukuiraptor Fukuiraptor was a medium-sized carnivore of the Early Cretaceous that lived in what is now Japan. Scientists first thought it was a member of the Dromaeosauridae, but after studying the fossils they now believe it was related to Allosaurus....		Japan
Longipteryx Longipteryx Longipteryx is a genus of prehistoric bird which lived during the Early Cretaceous, perhaps in the Barremian . It contains a single species, Longipteryx chaoyangensis....		Liaoning, China
"Proornis Proornis "Proornis" is an extinct genus of basal bird from the Early Cretaceous of northernmost North Korea. Since it was never formally described in a peer - reviewed journal, the genus is considered a nomen nudum and thus not italicized.... "		North Korea
Neovenator Neovenator Neovenator is a genus of Allosauroidea dinosaur. Since its discovery on the Isle of Wight, UK, it has become one of the best-known large carnivorous dinosaurs in Europe....		Isle of Wight, England
Caudipteryx Caudipteryx Caudipteryx is a genus of peacock-sized theropod dinosaurs that lived in the Barremian age of the early Cretaceous Period . They were feathered and remarkably birdlike in their overall appearance....		Liaoning, China
Huaxiagnathus Huaxiagnathus Huaxiagnathus is a genus of theropod dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of China. It was a Compsognathidae, large for that family at about half a meter longer than Compsognathus and larger specimens of Sinosauropteryx, with the largest specimen about 1.8 meters in length....		Liaoning, China
Changchengornis Changchengornis Changchengornis is a prehistoric bird genus from the Early Cretaceous. Its remains have been found in the PRC, in Chaomidianzi Formation rocks from around the Barremian-Aptian boundary, deposited 125 million years ago....		Liaoning, China
Microraptor Microraptor Microraptor is a genus of small, dromaeosaurid dinosaur. About two dozen well-preserved fossil specimens have been recovered from Liaoning, China....		Liaoning, China
Sinornithosaurus Sinornithosaurus Sinornithosaurus is a genus of Feathered dinosaurs dromaeosaurid dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous Period of the Yixian Formation in what is now China....		Liaoning, China
Utahraptor Utahraptor Utahraptor is the largest known member of the theropod dinosaur family Dromaeosauridae, and dates from the upper Barremian faunal stage of the Early Cretaceous period ....		Utah, USA
Concornis Concornis Concornis was an enantiornithine bird. It lived during the Early Cretaceous, in the late Barremian stage or about 127-125 million years ago, and its remains are known from the Calizas de La Hu?rguina Formation at Las Hoyas, Cuenca province, Spain....		Cuenca, Spain
Iberomesornis Iberomesornis Iberomesornis is a monotypic genus of Enantiornithes bird. In 1985 it was discovered in the Early Cretaceous La Hu?rgina Formation at Las Hoyas, Cuenca , Spain....		Cuenca, Spain
Harpymimus Harpymimus Harpymimus was a basal ornithomimosaur from the Early Cretaceous Period of what is now Mongolia. Unlike later, more derived ornithomimosaurs, Harpymimus still possessed teeth, although they appear to have been restricted to the lower jaw ....		Gobi Desert, Mongolia
Yixianosaurus Yixianosaurus Yixianosaurus was a maniraptoran dinosaur genus from the Early Cretaceous of People's Republic of China. It is known only from a pair of fossilized arms complete with fossilized feathers....		Liaoning, China
Afrovenator Afrovenator Afrovenator is a genus of megalosaurid theropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Period of northern Africa. It was a bipedal predator, with a mouthful of sharp teeth and three claws on each hand....		Niger, Africa
Sapeornis Sapeornis Sapeornisis a genus of primitive bird which lived during the Early Cretaceous . The genus contains only the species Sapeornis chaoyangensis which is known from fossils found in Jiufotang Formation rocks near Chaoyang, PRC....		Liaoning, China
Shenzhousaurus Shenzhousaurus Shenzhousaurus is a genus of basal ornithomimosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of China. The holotype was collected from near the bottom of the Yixian Formation at the Sihetun fossil site, Beipiao, western Liaoning Province....		Liaoning, China
Pelecanimimus Pelecanimimus Pelecanimimus is a genus of primitive ornithomimosaur from the Early Cretaceous of Spain. It is notable for possessing more teeth than any other member of the Ornithomimosauria, most of which were toothless....		Cuenca, Spain
Incisivosaurus Incisivosaurus Incisivosaurus is a genus of small, probably herbivorous theropod dinosaur from the early Cretaceous Period of what is now the People's Republic of China....		Liaoning, China
Baryonyx Baryonyx Baryonyx Baryonyx is one of the few known piscivore dinosaurs, with specialized adaptions like a long low snout with narrow jaws filled with finely serrated teeth and gaffe hook-like claws to help it hunt its main prey....		England, Spain, Portugal
Chilantaisaurus Chilantaisaurus Chilantaisaurus was a possible Spinosauroidea dinosaur from early Cretaceous China.The type species, C. tashuikouensis, was described by Hu in 1964....		China
Calamosaurus Calamosaurus Calamosaurus was a genus of small theropod dinosaur from the Barremian-age Lower Cretaceous Wessex Formation of the Isle of Wight, England....		Isle of Wight, England
Prodeinodon Prodeinodon Prodeinodon is a nomen dubium genus of theropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of China and Mongolia. Three species have been identified, all three known only from tooth fragments showing no diagnostic features, making them difficult to classify, though they may belong to a carnosaur....		China, Mongolia
Yaverlandia Yaverlandia Yaverlandia is a genus of theropod dinosaur. Known from a partial fossil skull found in Lower Cretaceous strata on the Isle of Wight, it was described as the earliest known member of the pachycephalosaurid family, but recent research by Darren Naish shows it to have actually been a theropod, seemingly a maniraptoran....		Isle of Wight, England
Sinovenator Sinovenator Sinovenator is a genus of troodontid dinosaur from China. It is from the early Cretaceous Period . Two fossils were found in the older portion of the Yixian Formation in China, 128.2 million years ago during the Barremian age....		Liaoning, China

Thyreophora

Thyreophora

The Thyreophora were a subgroup of the ornithischian dinosaurs. They were Armour herbivorous dinosaurs, living from the early Jurassic until the end of the Cretaceous....

Thyreophora Thyreophora The Thyreophora were a subgroup of the ornithischian dinosaurs. They were Armour herbivorous dinosaurs, living from the early Jurassic until the end of the Cretaceous....  of the Barremian
Taxa	Presence	Location	Description	Images
Liaoningosaurus Liaoningosaurus Liaoningosaurus is a very unusual ankylosaur from the Lower Cretaceous. The holotype , an essentially complete juvenile skeleton, was collected from the Yixian Formation of Liaoxi, Yixian County, Liaoning Province, People's Republic of China....		Liaoning, China
Gastonia Gastonia Gastonia may refer to:Places:*Gastonia, North Carolina, United StatesIn biology:*Gastonia , a genus in the ivy or ginseng family...		Utah, USA
Hoplitosaurus Hoplitosaurus Hoplitosaurus was a genus of armored dinosaur related to Polacanthus. It was named from a partial skeleton found in the ?Barremian-age Lower Cretaceous Lakota Formation of Custer County, South Dakota....		South Dakota, USA
Polacanthus Polacanthus Polacanthus, deriving its name from the Ancient Greek poly-/p???- "many" and acantha/a?a??a "thorn" or "prickle", was an early armored, spiked, plant-eating ankylosaur from the early Cretaceous period....		England
Sauroplites Sauroplites Sauroplites is a genus of ankylosaurid dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous. The type species, Sauroplites scutiger, was formally described by Bohlin in 1953, but is often considered a nomen dubium because it is based on fragmentary material....		Gansu, China
Craterosaurus Craterosaurus Craterosaurus was a genus of stegosaurid dinosaur. It lived during the Early Cretaceous around 125-140 Mya . Its fossils were found in England....		England
Regnosaurus Regnosaurus Regnosaurus is a genus of herbivorous stegosaurian dinosaur that lived during the Early Cretaceous Period in what is now England....		Sussex, England

Mammals

Mammals of the Barremian
Taxa	Presence	Location	Description	Images
Eobaatar Eobaatar Eobaatar is a genus of extinct mammal from the Lower Cretaceous of Mongolia and Spain. It was a member of the also extinct order Multituberculata, and lived at the same time as some dinosaurs....	several species from Hauterivian to Albian Albian Albian is a faunal stage of the Cretaceous geologic timescale.Albian is a term proposed in 1842 by A. d'Orbigny for that stage of the Cretaceous system which comes above the Aptian and below the Cenomanian ....	Spain, Mongolia
Eomaia Eomaia Eomaia scansoria is an extinct fossil mammal, discovered in rocks that were found in the Yixian Formation, Liaoning Province, China, and dated to the Barremian Age of the Lower Cretaceous about ....
Repenomamus Repenomamus Repenomamus is the largest mammal known from the Cretaceous period of the Mesozoic, and it is the mammal for which there is the best evidence that it fed on dinosaurs....

Pterosaur

Pterosaur

Pterosaurs were flying reptiles of the clade or Order Pterosauria. They existed from the late Triassic to the end of the Cretaceous Period . Pterosaurs are the earliest vertebrates known to have evolved powered flight....
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• Azhdarchoidea
  Azhdarchoidea
  
  Azhdarchoidea is a group of pterosaurs within the suborder Pterodactyloidea....
   incertae sedis: Chaoyangopterus
  Chaoyangopterus
  
  Chaoyangopterus is a genus of azhdarchoidea pterodactyloid pterosaur known from a partial skeleton found in Liaoning, People's Republic of China....
  , Jidapterus
  Jidapterus
  
  Jidapterus was a genus of Azhdarchoidea pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Barremian-Aptian-age Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation of Chaoyang, Liaoning, People's Republic of China....
  
• Ctenochasmatidae: Beipiaopterus
  Beipiaopterus
  
  Beipiaopterus chenianus was a pterosaur of the family Ctenochasmatidae of the Yixian formation of Beipiao City, Liaoning Province, People's Republic of China.The type and only species is known from a large part of the vertebrae, a complete wing and two hind limbs....
  , Liaoxipterus
  Liaoxipterus
  
  Liaoxipterus is a genus of Ctenochasmatidae pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Barremian-Aptian-age Lower Cretaceous Jiufotang Formation of Chaoyang, Liaoning, People's Republic of China....
  
• Istiodactylidae
  Istiodactylidae
  
  Istiodactylidae is a small Family of pterosaurs. This family was named in 2001 after the type genus Istiodactylus was discovered not to be a member of the genus Ornithodesmus....
  : Hongshanopterus
  Hongshanopterus
  
  Hongshanopterus is a genus of istiodactylidae ornithocheiroidea pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Lower Cretaceous Jiufotang Formation of Liaoning, People's Republic of China....
  ,Istiodactylus
  Istiodactylus
  
  Istiodactylus was a medium sized pterosaur from the Early Cretaceous period.Discovered on the Isle of Wight, Istiodactylus latidens was originally placed in the genus Ornithodesmus by H.G....
  ,Longchengpterus
  Longchengpterus
  
  Longchengpterus was a genus of Istiodactylidae pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Barremian-Aptian-age Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation of Chaoyang, Liaoning, People's Republic of China....
  , Nurhachius
  Nurhachius
  
  Nurhachius was a genus of Istiodactylidae pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Barremian-Aptian-age Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation of Chaoyang, Liaoning, People's Republic of China....
  
• Ornithocheiridae: Haopterus
  Haopterus
  
  Haopterus was a genus of Ornithocheiridae pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Barremian-Aptian-age Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation of Liaoning, People's Republic of China....
  , Liaoningopterus
  Liaoningopterus
  
  Liaoningopterus , sometimes misspelled Liaoningopteryx, was a genus of Ornithocheiridae pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Barremian-Aptian-age Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation of Chaoyang, Liaoning, People's Republic of China....
  
• Ornithocheiroidea
  Ornithocheiroidea
  
  Ornithocheiroidea is a group of pterosaurs within the suborder Pterodactyloidea....
   incertae sedis: Boreopterus
  Boreopterus
  
  Boreopterus is a genus of ornithocheiridae pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Barremian-Aptian-age Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation of Dalian, Liaoning, People's Republic of China....
  
• Pterodactyloidea
  Pterodactyloidea
  
  Pterodactyloidea forms one of the two suborders of pterosaurs , and contains the most advanced members of this group of flying reptiles. They appeared during the middle Jurassic Period, and differ from the basal rhamphorhynchoidea by their short tails and long wing metacarpals ....
   incertae sedis: Feilongus
  Feilongus
  
  Feilongus is an extinct genus of Ctenochasmatoidea or Ornithocheiroidea pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Barremian-Aptian-age Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation of Beipiao, Liaoning, People's Republic of China....
  
• Tapejaridae
  Tapejaridae
  
  Tapejaridae are a Family of pterodactyloid pterosaurs from the early Cretaceous Period . Members are currently known from Brazil and China, where the most primitive genera are found, indicating that the family has an Asian origin....
  : Huaxiapterus
  Huaxiapterus
  
  Huaxiapterus was a genus of Tapejaridae pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Barremian-Aptian-age Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation of Chaoyang, Liaoning, People's Republic of China....
  , Sinopterus
  Sinopterus
  
  Sinopterus was a genus of Tapejaridae pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Barremian-Aptian-age Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation of Chaoyang, Liaoning, People's Republic of China....
  

See also

• List of fossil sites
  List of fossil sites
  
  This is a worldwide list of important and/or well-known localities where fossils have been found. Such locations may either be a geological formation or a single site....
  

Footnotes