Huanghuazhen tracksite (Cretaceous of China)

Also known as Zhucheng, Huanglonggou

Where: Shandong, China (35.9° N, 119.4° E: paleocoordinates 38.3° N, 122.5° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Longwangzhuang Formation (Laiyang Group), Late/Upper Barremian (130.0 - 125.5 Ma)

• five track-bearing levels

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; fine-grained, gray, green, yellow, argillaceous sandstone

• "yellow green gray green shore-shallow lacustrine and fluvial sediments of argillaceous sandstone and fine-grained sandstone"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collected by Li, Lockley, & Matsukawa in 2006, 2008, 2010

Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ), mechanical, peel or thin section,

Primary reference: R. Li, M. G. Lockley, M. Matsukawa, K. Wang, and M. Liu. 2011. An unusual theropod track assemblage from the Cretaceous of the Zhucheng area, Shandong Province, China. Cretaceous Research 32:422-432 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 112138: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 04.07.2011, edited by Matthew Carrano

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines -
? Testudines indet. Batsch 1788 turtle
UCM 214.231-239, UCM 214. 252
 Theropoda -
Corpulentapus lilasia n. gen. n. sp.
Corpulentapus lilasia n. gen. n. sp. Li et al. 2011 theropod
morphotype C; trackways C1–C19
 Theropoda - Grallatoridae
Grallatoridae indet.2 Lull 1904 theropod
morphotype A; trackways T-1, T0–T3, T6; UCM 214.172, UCM 214.176, UCM 214.229-230, UCM 214.249
Grallator yangi2 Lii and Zhang 2000 theropod
morphotype B; trackways T4, 5, 7–21
 Ornithischia -
Ornithopoda indet.1 Marsh 1881 ornithopod
 Saurischia -
Sauropoda indet. Marsh 1878 sauropod