Pingchuan tracksite, assemblge C: Late/Upper Bathonian, China
collected by IVPG 2017–2018
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Grallatoridae
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Grallator pingchuanensis
Li et al. 2019
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12 specimens | |||||||||
| PC-TI16-18 | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | China | State/province: | Gansu | County: | Baiyin |
| Coordinates: | 36.7° North, 104.8° East (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 39.1° North, 108.7° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Middle Jurassic |
| Stage: | Bathonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Jurassic 4 |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Bathonian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 168.20000 - 165.30000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Wangjiashan | Member: | Lower | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: upper part of lower member | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | yellow sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | lacustrine deltaic indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | cast,trace |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Spatial orientation: | life position |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
| Associated major elements: | many |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
| Spatial resolution: | autochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ),field collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
| Collectors: | IVPG | Collection dates: | 2017–2018 |
Metadata
| Database number: | 204945 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2019-09-27 13:27:30 | Last modified: | 2019-09-27 13:34:41 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2019-09-27 13:27:30 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 70328. | D.-Q. Li, L.-D. Xing, M. G. Lockley, A. Romilio, J.-T. Yang and L.-F. Li. 2019. The first theropod tracks from the Middle Jurassic of Gansu, northwest China: new and rare evidence of quadrupedal progression in theropod dinosaurs. Journal of Palaeogeography 8:10:1-11 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |