Talk:Shaximiao Formation

Ziliujung
I guess the Ziliujung Formation is 自流井地层 in Chinese, but there are no Google hits for "自流井地层" and "大山铺" on the same page. Wikipeditor 03:23, 27 November 2006 (UTC)


 * 组 is better. (""大山铺" "自流井组") --Reiner Stoppok (talk) 21:36, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

"Dashanpo Formation" in Chinese
地层 seems to mean “layer” – is the Chinese name of the Dashanpo paleontological site 大山铺采石场 ? There's only a single Google hit for that term. There must be a more widely used term, but what is it? Wikipeditor 03:33, 27 November 2006 (UTC)


 * Good thing this is an English encyclopedia huh? I'm just following info I've gathered from various sources. Spawn Man 02:11, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

Ergh?
Doesn't having Dashanpu redirect here & then having a link to Dashanpu on this page bend the space-time contiuum in some way? Argh! A black hole! Spawn Man 00:19, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Is there a word "Dashanpu Formation" in Chinese?
I don't think so. The word would be 大山铺组, but it is not (really) in use. --Reiner Stoppok (talk) 21:26, 5 September 2008 (UTC) PS: Cf. 大山铺恐龙动物群, 大山铺恐龙化石群遗址 or 大山铺恐龙化石遗址. The article should be called "Dashanpu Dinosaur fossils" or something like that.

Sanpasaurus
I've read that Upchurch (1995) considers Sanpasaurus a basal sauropod (see also thesis by Philip Mannion). Would it make sense to admit that Sanpasaurus is a valid basal sauropod and not a chimera rather than wait for better material from the Sanpasaurus type horizon?

Upchurch, P. 1995. The evolutionary history of sauropod dinosaurs. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, London, B, 349:365-390.68.4.61.168 (talk) 15:21, 14 October 2011 (UTC)Vahe Demirjian

Formations can't contain formations
Is it officially "Dashanpu Group" now? Someone please check. Also, the literature calls the Shaximiao Fms Upper Jurassic, not Middle. David Marjanović (talk) 21:44, 10 August 2016 (UTC)


 * Correction: the literature calles the Lower Shaximiao Fm Middle Jurassic ( ~ Callovian) and the Upper one Upper Jurassic ( ~ Oxfordian). I still haven't come across "Dashanpu Fm" in the literature. David Marjanović (talk) 19:32, 6 September 2019 (UTC)
 * I think you're right, the term Danshanpu seems to be used as a locative nerm, never as a stratigraphic term. In that case, what should the article be renamed to? I think probably reformatting the article to refer soley to the Shaximiao Formation is best Hemiauchenia (talk) 22:53, 19 September 2019 (UTC)

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