Lotus Fortress tracksite, QIII (Cretaceous to of China)

Also known as Sanjiao, Laoying Mountain, Lianhua Baozhai

Where: Sichuan, China (29.4° N, 103.9° E: paleocoordinates 28.1° N, 107.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Jiaguan Formation (Chiating Group), Barremian to Barremian (129.4 - 100.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; quartzose sandstone and mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression, trace

Collected by L. Xing in 2006–2007, 2009, 2012

Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),

Primary reference: L. Xing, M. G. Lockley, D. Marty, J. Zhang, Y. Wang, H. Klein, R. T. McCrea, L. G. Buckley, M. Belvedere, O. Mateus, G. D. Gierliński, L. Piñuela, W. Scott Persons, IV, F. Wang, H. Ran, H. Dai, and X. Xie. 2015. An ornithopod-dominated tracksite from the Lower Cretaceous Jiaguan Formation (Barremian-Albian) of Qijiang, south-central China: new discoveries, ichnotaxonomy, preservation and palaeoecology. PLoS ONE 10(10):e0141059:1-44 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 220059: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 03.05.2021

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Saurischia -
Sauropoda indet. Marsh 1878 sauropod
 Ornithischia - Iguanodontipodidae
Caririchnium lotus Xing et al. 2007 ornithopod
QIII-O1, O2, O3, O4