Huangyandi, Peiputze tracksite (IVPP) (Cretaceous of China)

Also known as Beibozi, Laiyang

Where: Shandong, China (37.0° N, 120.8° E: paleocoordinates 39.6° N, 123.7° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• originally considered Late Jurassic

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; fine-grained, brown, yellow sandstone

• "light brownish yellow fine corned [sic: grained] sandstone}

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collected by Liu in 1951; reposited in the IVPP

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ),

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 52854: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 24.08.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet. Marsh 1881 theropod
cf. Grallator or Paragrallator
Aves
 Aves -
Aves indet. bird
bird tracks
Reptilia
 Crocodylia -
Laiyangpus liui n. gen. n. sp.
Laiyangpus liui n. gen. n. sp. Young 1960 crocodilian
IVPP V2471