Also known as Liujiaxia Dinosaur National Geopark sites I, II
Where: Gansu, China (36.1° N, 103.3° E: paleocoordinates 36.5° N, 105.5° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: 6 Formation (Hekou Group), Barremian to Barremian (129.4 - 113.0 Ma)
• single bedding plane cropping out at both sites, with a second, slightly higher adjacent outcrop
•- also called "Upper Formation", tracks in lower part; 6th informal formation-level
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lacustrine - small; fine-grained, gray sandstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: mold/impression, trace
Collected in 2000–2004
Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),
• discovered by workers from the Research Center of Paleontology of the Bureau of Geology and Resource Exploration of Gansu Province
Primary reference: Y.-s. Du, D.-q. Li, B.-x. Peng, R.-l. Lei, and Z.-c. Bai. 2002. [Large-scale sauropod dinosaur footprints from Yanguoxia, Yongjing County, Gansu Province]. Earth Science – Journal of China University of Geosciences 27(4):367-372 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 59255: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 21.03.2006, edited by Matthew Carrano
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Dromaeosauripus yongjingensis n. sp.4
Dromaeosauripus yongjingensis n. sp.4 Xing et al. 2013 maniraptoran "probably dromaeosaurid"; "type 1"
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Pteraichnus yanguoxiaensis n. sp.2
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