Wu Ma Cun, site A (Rice cleaning) (Jurassic to of China)

Also known as Wumacun

Where: Sichuan, China (29.7° N, 104.8° E: paleocoordinates 30.8° N, 109.9° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Xintiangou Formation, Aalenian to Aalenian (174.1 - 168.3 Ma)

• tracks are 4 m above underlying Daanzhai Mb. of Ziliujing Fm.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; yellow sandstone

• "yellow sandstone"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collected in 1970s, 1981

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• exposed by farmers clearing topsoil to make a threshing ground

Primary reference: Y. X. Yang and Y. D. Yang. 1987. Sichuan Pen Di Kong Long Zu Yin Hua Shi [Dinosaur Footprints from Mesozoic of Sichuan Basin] 1-30 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 60493: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 16.05.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Theropoda - Grallatoridae
Zizhongpus wumanensis n. gen. n. sp., "Chonglongpus hei n. gen. n. sp." = Gigandipus hei, Tuojiangpus shuinanensis n. gen. n. sp., Chuanchengpus wuhuangensis n. gen. n. sp.
Zizhongpus wumanensis n. gen. n. sp. Yang and Yang 1987 theropod
"Chonglongpus hei n. gen. n. sp." = Gigandipus hei Yang and Yang 1987 theropod
Tuojiangpus shuinanensis n. gen. n. sp. Yang and Yang 1987 theropod
Chuanchengpus wuhuangensis n. gen. n. sp. Yang and Yang 1987 theropod