Hailiutu tracksite, Wulatezhongqi: Early/Lower Jurassic, China
collected 2006

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Grallatoridae
Eubrontes glenrosensis Shuler 1935
Reptilia
Kayentapus hailiutuensis n. sp. Li et al. 2010
Reptilia - Moyenisauropodidae
Anomoepus intermedius Hitchcock 1862
synonym of Anomoepus scambus
Reptilia - Batrachopodidae
Batrachopus sp. Hitchcock 1845
see common names

Geography
Country:China State/province:Nei Mongol
Coordinates: 41.4° North, 108.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:50.1° North, 116.3° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Early/Lower Jurassic
10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 1-3
Key time interval:Early/Lower Jurassic
Age range of interval:201.40000 - 174.70000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Shiguai
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: near top of Shiguai Group; assigned to Tuchengzi Fm. in Lockley et al. 2014
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:coarse sandstone
Secondary lithology: conglomerate
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "sandstone with conglomerates"; "The track bearing layer consists of an undulating exposure of coarse sandstone containing scour features indicating flow towards the southeast."
Environment:terrestrial indet. Tectonic setting:intermontane basin
Geology comments: "intermountain basins with plentiful rain"
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Spatial orientation:life position
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Abundance in sediment:common
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
Collection dates:2006
Collection method comments: discovered by Institute of Geo-environmental Inspection of Inner Mongolia
Metadata
Database number:107973
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2011-04-20 00:45:35 Last modified:2023-03-09 13:03:48
Access level:the public Released:2011-04-20 00:45:35
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
35855.ETE J. Li, Z. Bai, M. G. Lockley, B. Zhou, J. Liu and Y. Song. 2010. [Dinosaur tracks in Wulatezhongqi, Inner Mongolia]. Acta Geologica Sinica 84(5):723-742 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

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]
60826 L. Xing, M. G. Lockley, H. Klein, P. L. Falkingham, J. Y. Kim, R. T. McCrea, J. Zhang, W. S. Persons, T. Wang and Z. Wang. 2016. First Early Jurassic small ornithischian tracks from Yunnan Province, southwestern China. Palaios 31:516-524 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
83955 L. Xing, M. G. Lockley, H. Klein, G. D. Gierliński, Y. Ye, J. Zhang, W. S. Persons and T. Wang. 2017. First thyreophoran type tracks from the Middle Jurassic Chuanjie Formation of Yunnan Province, China. Ichnos 28(1):8-15 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
69112 L.-D. Xing, M. G. Lockley, Q.-F. Wang, Z.-D. Li, H. Klein, W. S. Persons, Y. Ye and M. Matsukawa. 2014. Earliest records of dinosaur footprints in Xinjiang, China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 52(3):340-348 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]