Seonso Conglomerate

Seonso Conglomerate
Seonso Conglomerate
Stratigraphic range: Campanian; 81 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Type	Geological formation
Lithology
Primary	Conglomerate
Other	Sandstone, mudstone
Location
Coordinates	34°42′N 127°12′E / 34.7°N 127.2°E
Approximate paleocoordinates	39°00′N 115°48′E / 39.0°N 115.8°E
Region	South Jeolla
Country	South Korea
	Seonso Conglomerate (South Korea)

The Seonso Conglomerate (Korean: 선소층) is a Cretaceous aged geologic formation in South Korea. Fossil of sauropod and ornithopod eggs,^[2] Asprosaurus^[3] and Koreanosaurus^[4] have been reported from the formation.^[5]

References

^ Kim, J.K.; Kwon, Y.E.; Lee, S.G.; Kim, C.Y.; Kim, J.G.; Huh, M.; Lee, E.; Kim, Y.J. (2017). "Correlative microscopy of the constituents of a dinosaur rib fossil and hosting mudstone: Implications on diagenesis and fossil preservation". PLOS ONE. 13 (3): e0195421. Bibcode:2017PLoSO..1286600K. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0186600. PMC 5648225. PMID 29049347.
^ 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:RDNSFT]2.0.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. Bibcode:2015CrRes..55..292P. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2015.03.001.
^ 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" (PDF). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen. 259 (1): 1–24. doi:10.1127/0077-7749/2010/0102.
^ Weishampel, David B., ed. (2004). The dinosauria (2nd ed.). Berkeley: Univ. of California Press. p. 600. ISBN 0-520-24209-2.