Karongwa site II tracksite (Jurassic of China)

Also known as KRWII

Where: Xizang Autonomous Region, China (30.5° N, 97.9° E: paleocoordinates 14.0° N, 93.0° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: First Member (Dongdaqiao Formation), Middle Jurassic (174.7 - 161.5 Ma)

• top of First Member = former Shaqiaomu Formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; red, blue siltstone

• "purple-red siltstone"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collected by L. Xing in 2019

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: L. Xing, H. Klein, M. G. Lockley, H. Li, B. Tong, Y. Ye, H. Dai, C. Chunyong, D. Wang, A. Romilio, and W. S. Persons. 2023. New records of dinosaur tracks in eastern Tibet and a review of Middle Jurassic dinosaur faunas from the eastern Tethys, southwest China. Historical Biology [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 230808: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 21.07.2023

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Ornithischia -
cf. Deltapodus sp.
cf. Deltapodus sp. Whyte and Romano 1995 ornithischian
trackways KRWII-T1, KRWII-T2
 Saurischia -
cf. Brontopodus sp.
cf. Brontopodus sp. Farlow et al. 1989 sauropod
trackways KRWII-S1, KRWII-S2 and tracks KRWII-SI1 to KRWII-SI5