Ganchong tracksite I (GCI) (Jurassic of China)

Also known as Konglongshan, Chuanjie

Where: Yunnan, China (24.9° N, 102.0° E: paleocoordinates 22.9° N, 107.7° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Anning Formation, Late/Upper Jurassic (161.5 - 145.0 Ma)

• top of lower unit of formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; gray, green, yellow siltstone

• "grey, yellow-green siltstone"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collected by T. Wang & L.-D. Xing in 2014

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: L.-D. Xing, M. G. Lockley, H. Klein, J.-P. Zhang, T. Wang, W. S. Persons, and Z.-M. Dong. 2016. A tetrapod footprint assemblage with possible swim traces from the Jurassic–Cretaceous boundary, Anning Formation, Konglongshan, Yunnan, China. Palaeoworld 25:444-452 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 202733: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 19.07.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet.
Theropoda indet. Marsh 1881 theropod
GCI-1, 4
 Ornithischia -
cf. Wintonopus sp.
cf. Wintonopus sp. Thulborn and Wade 1984 ornithopod
GCI-3 (or cf. Characichnos sp.)
 Crocodylia -
cf. Hatcherichnus sp.
cf. Hatcherichnus sp. Foster and Lockley 1997 crocodilian
GCI02