Madigou Quarry, Chengde (Cretaceous of China)

Also known as Chengde Summer Palace, Chengde Mountain Resort, Liugou, Liukou, Chengte

Where: Hebei, China (40.9° N, 118.2° E: paleocoordinates 42.0° N, 120.2° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Houcheng Formation, Berriasian (145.0 - 139.8 Ma)

• originally attributed to an unnamed "Rhaetic-Lias" formation, also assigned to Third Member of Tuchengzi Fm.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; coarse-grained, tuffaceous, gray, calcareous sandstone

• "a shallow, quiet, sand flat or shallow lake and/or flood plain"
• "tuffaceous sandstone"; "purple-gray tuff sandstones"; "calcareous coarse sandstone with occasionally small pebbles"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collected by C.-C. Young; R. Forman, R. Huang, J. Guo, J. You in 1960, 1979, 1992

Collection methods: salvage,

Primary reference: C.-C. Young. 1960. Fossil footprints from China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 4(2):53-66 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 52850: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 24.08.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Hypsilophodontidae
Hypsilophodontidae indet.1 hypsilophodontid
 Theropoda - Grallatoridae
cf. Grallator sp.2 Hitchcock 1858 theropod
"morphotype B"
"Jeholosauripus ssatoi" = Grallator ssatoi Yabe et al. 1940 theropod
IVPP V2474
cf. Eubrontes sp.2 Hitchcock 1845 theropod
"morphotype A"
 Theropoda - Dromaeosauridae
Velociraptorichnus sp.2 Zhen et al. 1994 maniraptoran
MDG-24, 25; CMR-20, 35
Aves
  - Koreanaornipodidae
Koreanaornis sp.2 Kim 1969 bird
incl. STM 55-7
Reptilia
 Saurischia -
? Sauropoda indet.2 Marsh 1878 sauropod
CMR-5
 Ichnofossils -