Sikou tracksite (Cretaceous of China)

Where: Liaoning, China (41.2° N, 120.3° E: paleocoordinates 44.5° N, 120.5° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Jiufotang Formation (Jehol Group), Aptian (125.0 - 113.0 Ma)

• "Third Formation" = Chiufotang Group

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified, green, conglomeratic sandstone and tuffaceous, gray, blue shale

• "Green, hard, compact sandstone, about 2 m thick, conglomeratic in its upper 0.5-2 cm part. The footprints are preserved on the upper surface of this bed. Above, alternation of grey to blue tuf and tuffaceous shale, thin bedded, 7 m thick layer."

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collected by T. Shikama in 1941

Collection methods: bulk, mechanical,

• over 4,000 footprints

Primary reference: M. Noda and T. Shikama. 1941. Netsuka osore ryū no ashiato kaseki ni tsuite [On the fossil footprints of Fukui dragons]. Kagaku (Science) 11(12):474-478 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 54003: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 21.09.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Theropoda - Grallatoridae
"Jeholosauripus ssatoi" = Grallator ssatoi
"Jeholosauripus ssatoi" = Grallator ssatoi Yabe et al. 1940 theropod