Silbawi section, upper bird track horizon (Cretaceous of South Korea)

Also known as Dukmyeongri

Where: Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea (34.9° N, 128.1° E: paleocoordinates 44.2° N, 122.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Jindong Formation (Hayang Group), Albian (113.0 - 100.5 Ma)

• Silbawi section, upper bird track horizon

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; sandstone and siltstone

• "Alternations of sand-silt depostion with mud and corbonate"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: trace

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• Museum: KPE

Primary reference: M. G. Lockley, S.Y. Yang, M. Matsukawa, F. Fleming, and S.K. Lim. 1992. The track record of Mesozoic birds: evidence and implications. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences 336:113-134 [J. Alroy/S. Kuemmell/S. Kuemmell]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 60598: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Susanna Kümmell on 18.05.2006

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Taxonomic list

Aves
  - Koreanaornipodidae
 Ichnofossils -
Cochlichnus sp. Hitchcock 1858