Luogan tracksite: Early/Lower Cretaceous, China
collected by K. Tong 2017
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
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Theropoda indet.
(Marsh 1881)
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90 specimens | |||||||||
| 46 trackways (LG-T1–T46) & 35 isolated tracks (LG-TI1–TI35) in Layer I; 5 isolated tracks (LG-TI36–TI40) in Layer II; & 5 trackways (LG-T50–T54) in Layer III | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Grallatoridae
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Grallator sp.
Hitchcock 1858
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1 individual | |||||||||
| LG-T53 | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
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Sauropoda indet.
(Marsh 1878)
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1 individual | |||||||||
| LG-SI1m and LG-SI1p | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | China | State/province: | Sichuan | County: | Xide |
| Coordinates: | 28.1° North, 102.5° East (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 25.6° North, 108.7° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Early/Lower Cretaceous |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 1-4 | ||
| Key time interval: | Early/Lower Cretaceous | ||
| Age range of interval: | 145.00000 - 100.50000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | lacustrine - small |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | mold/impression,trace |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Spatial orientation: | life position |
| Associated major elements: | some |
| Disassociated major elements: | some |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
| Spatial resolution: | autochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ),field collection,observed (not collected) | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis | ||
| Collectors: | K. Tong | Collection dates: | Apr 2017 |
Metadata
| Database number: | 219992 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2021-04-29 10:48:47 | Last modified: | 2021-04-29 10:53:55 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2021-04-29 10:48:47 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 76705. | L. Xing, M. G. Lockley, K. Tong, G. Peng, A. Romilio, H. Klein, W. S. Persons, Y. Ye, and S. Jiang. 2019. A diversified dinosaur track assemblage from the Lower Cretaceous Xiaoba Formation of Sichuan Province, China: implications for ichnological database and census studies. Cretaceous Research 96:120-134 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |