Pianling tracksite (Cretaceous of China)

Where: Hebei, China (45.9° N, 117.3° E: paleocoordinates 48.8° N, 117.4° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Xiguayuan Formation, Early/Lower Cretaceous (145.0 - 100.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: trace

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: M. G. Lockley and M. Matsukawa. 1998. Lower Cretaceous vertebrate tracksites of East Asia. In S. G. Lucas, J. I. Kirkland, and J. W. Estep (eds.), Lower and Middle Cretaceous Terrestrial Ecosystems, New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 14:135-142 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 146536: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 26.06.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet. Marsh 1881 theropod
trackways
 Avetheropoda -
Changpeipus "sp. 1"2 Young 1960 carnosaur
track B
 Ornithischia -
Iguanodontia indet.1 ornithopod
trackways