Yongsanri tracksite (Cretaceous to of South Korea)

Also known as Yongsan-ri, Haman, Yongsan-myeon

Where: Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea (35.3° N, 128.5° E: paleocoordinates 43.9° N, 125.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Haman Formation (Hayang Group), Aptian to Aptian (125.0 - 100.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; fine-grained sandstone

• "Two ornithopod and one sauropod trackways were measured on fine sandstone of the Haman Formation"

Size class: macrofossils

• Two ornithopod trackways (comprised of four and seven consecutive footprints, respectively) and one sauropod trackway.

Preservation: trace

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

• Replicas of the two ornithopod trackways were deposited in Kyungpook National University, Daegu.

Primary reference: H. M. Kim. 1969. A study of several sole marks in the Haman Formation. Journal of the Geological Society of Korea 5(4):243-258 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 166426: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 12.02.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
  -
? Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
"may belong to one kind of Gastropod trails"
Reptilia
 Saurischia -
Sauropoda indet. Marsh 1878 sauropod
 Ornithischia -
Ornithopoda indet. Marsh 1881 ornithopod
trackways composed of four and seven tracks, respectively
Aves
  - Koreanaornipodidae
Koreanaornis hamanensis n. gen. n. sp.
Koreanaornis hamanensis n. gen. n. sp. Kim 1969 bird
Holotype and Paratype