Gyeongnam Science High School tracksite: Aptian - Albian, South Korea
collected by K. S. Baek 1997

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
Brontopodus sp. Farlow et al. 1989
Kim et al. 2012 2 individuals
    = Brontopodus pentadactylus n. sp. Kim and Lockley 2012
Kim and Lockley 2012
KNUE-0912001
Reptilia - Theropoda
Theropoda indet. (Marsh 1881)
3 specimens
small tracks
Reptilia - Theropoda - Avipedidae
? Aquatilavipes sp. Currie 1981
Kim et al. 2012
Reptilia - Theropoda - Koreanaornipodidae
Koreanaornis hamanensis Kim 1969
1000 specimens
KS 050
Reptilia - Theropoda - Ignotornidae
Goseongornipes markjonesi Lockley et al. 2006
Kim et al. 2012 5 individuals
KNUE 081002; KS 002, KS 041-043
Uhangrichnus chuni Yang et al. 1995
1 individual
KS 049
    = Ignotornis sp. Mehl 1931
Kim et al. 2012
Ignotornis gajinensis n. sp. Kim et al. 2012
Kim et al. 2012
KNUE 081001; KS 171
Reptilia - Pterosauria
Pterosauria indet. Kaup 1834
tracks
see common names

Geography
Country:South Korea State/province:Gyeongsangnam-do County:Jinseong-myeon
Coordinates: 35.8° North, 128.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:44.4° North, 125.2° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Early/Lower Cretaceous
Key time interval:Aptian - Albian
Age range of interval:121.40000 - 100.50000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Hayang Formation:Haman
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Multiple beds; most tracks occur within a 2 meter wide stratigraphic sampling horizon
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:fine silty sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "fine sandstone," "silty sandstone"
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Geology comments: "rain prints, ripple marks, mud cracks" observed
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:trace
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Spatial orientation:life position
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Spatial resolution:autochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),observed (not collected)
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collectors:K. S. Baek Collection dates:1997
Taxonomic list comments:"Besides these bird tracks, the theropod and possible pterosaur tracks are found."
Metadata
Also known as:Gajinri, Gajin-ri, Gajin tracksite
Database number:98353
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Oreska, M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2010-10-04 13:36:50 Last modified:2022-02-16 13:32:54
Access level:the public Released:2010-10-04 13:36:50
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

33988.ETE K. S. Baek and S. Y. Yang. 1997. [Preliminary report on the Cretaceous bird tracks of the lower Haman Formation, Korea]. Journal of the Geological Society of Korea 34(2):94-104 [M. Carrano/M. Oreska/M. Oreska]

Secondary references:

69095 J. Y. Kim, M. G. Lockley, S. J. Seo, K. S. Kim, S. H. Kim and K. S. Baek. 2012. A paradise of Mesozoic birds: the world's richest and most diverse Cretaceous bird track assemblage from the Early Cretaceous Haman Formation of the Gajin Tracksite, Jinju, Korea. Ichnos 19:28-42 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
75288 J. Y. Kim and M. G. Lockley. 2012. New sauropod tacks (Brontopodus pentadactylus ichnosp. nov.) from the Early Cretaceous HamanFormation of Jinju area, Korea: Implications for sauropods manus morphology. Ichnos 19(1–2):84-92 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
54333 Y.-N. Lee, K.-M. Yu, and C. B. Wood. 2001. A review of vertebrate faunas from the Gyeongsang Supergroup (Cretaceous) in South Korea. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 165:357-373 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
79876 M. G. Lockley, L. Xing, J. Y. Kim and M. Matsukawa. 2014. Tracking Lower Cretaceous Dinosaurs in China: a new database for comparison with ichnofaunal data from Korea, the Americas, Europe, Africa and Australia . Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 113:770-789 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
78838 I. S. Paik, M. Huh, H. J. Kim, S. J. Kim, and D. Newsom. 2010. The Cretaceous fossil sites of South Korea: identifying geosites, science and geotourism. In D. Newsome & R. K. Dowling (ed.), Geotourism: The Tourism of Geology and Landscape 1-17 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]