Qingyi tracksite (CDUT) (Triassic of China)

Where: Sichuan, China (30.1° N, 102.7° E: paleocoordinates 33.8° N, 91.6° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: 3 Member (Xujiahe Formation), Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)

• "3rd member" of the formation, 50 m above 2005 locality

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; quartzose sandstone

• "a quartz sandstone"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: trace

Collected by CDUT in 1989

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• discovered during a regional geological survey

Primary reference: L.-D. Xing, H. Klein, M. G. Lockley, S.-L. Wang, W. Chen, Y. Ye, M. Matsukawa and J.-P. Zhang. 2013. Earliest records of theropod and mammal-like tetrapod footprints in the Upper Triassic of Sichuan Basin, China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 51(3):184-198 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 224337: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 16.02.2022

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet.
Theropoda indet. theropod
isolated tracks F1–F4
 Theropoda - Grallatoridae
cf. Pengxianpus sp.
cf. Pengxianpus sp. Yang and Yang 1987 theropod
T1, T4 trackways
 Theropoda -
cf. Kayentapus sp.
cf. Kayentapus sp. Welles 1971 theropod
T3 trackway