Morong tracksite (Jurassic of China)

Where: Xizang Autonomous Region, China (31.0° N, 97.3° E: paleocoordinates 24.2° N, 94.7° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Dongdaqiao Formation (Chaya Group), Middle Jurassic (174.7 - 161.5 Ma)

• formerly Dabuka Fm.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; red, blue mudstone

• Chaya Group represents an island arc-inner arc basin zone
• "purple-red mudstones" with mud cracks and ripple marks

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collected by Xing in 1999-2000, 2003, 2010

Collection methods: surface (in situ), peel or thin section,

Primary reference: L.-d. Xing, J. D. Harris, and P. J. Currie. 2011. First record of dinosaur trackway from Tibet, China. Geological Bulletin of China 30(1):173-178 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 111207: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 21.06.2011, edited by Philip Mannion

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Saurischia -
Eusauropoda indet.
Eusauropoda indet. Upchurch 1995 sauropod
trackways MRFa1-3, MRFb1-2, MRFc1-2; "possibly a member of Titanoauriformes"