Chabu Site 15B: Late/Upper Barremian, China
collected 2014

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Grallatoridae
Grallator sp. Hitchcock 1858
1 individual
three tracks in a trackway, Chabu15B-3, Chabu15B-4 and Chabu15B-5
Reptilia - Eubrontidae
Asianopodus robustus Li 2011
Reptilia - Dromaeopodidae
Dromaeosauripus sp. Kim et al. 2008
2 specimens
Chabu15B-1 and Chabu15B-2
see common names

Geography
Country:China State/province:Nei Mongol
Coordinates: 38.9° North, 107.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:40.0° North, 109.6° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Altitude:1210 meters
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Early/Lower Cretaceous
Stage:Barremian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 2
Key time interval:Late/Upper Barremian
Age range of interval:125.77000 - 121.40000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Jianchuan
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: 1.9 m above site 15
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandy mudstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: sandy mudstone
Environment:fluvial-lacustrine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:mold/impression,trace
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Spatial orientation:life position
Preservation of anatomical detail:medium
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Spatial resolution:autochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),peel or thin section,observed (not collected)
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collection dates:Aug 2014
Metadata
Database number:220015
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2021-04-30 08:51:38 Last modified:2021-04-30 09:03:00
Access level:the public Released:2021-04-30 08:51:38
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

76723. B. Wang, J. Li, Z. Bai, J. Chang, and Y. Zhang. 2017. The first discovery of deinonychosaurian tracks from Lower Cretaceous of Chabu, Otog Qi, Inner Mongolia and its significance. Acta Scientiarum Naturalium Universitatis Pekinensis 53(1):81-90 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

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]