Dalishu bonebed, Konglongshan (Jurassic of China)

Also known as Da Li Shu, Kong Long Shan

Where: Yunnan, China (25.0° N, 102.1° E: paleocoordinates 34.1° N, 104.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Shawan Member (Lufeng Formation), Hettangian (201.3 - 199.3 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - small; red, blue, silty mudstone

• "shallow lacustrine strata"
• "a dull purplish, silty mudstone layer"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 2005–2007

Primary reference: L. Xing, E. M. Roberts, J. D. Harris, M. K. Gingras, H. Ran, J. Zhang, X. Xu, M. E. Burns, and Z. Dong. 2013. Novel insect traces on a dinosaur skeleton from the Lower Jurassic Lufeng Formation of China. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 388(2):58-68 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 173377: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 22.09.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Saurischia -
Sauropoda indet.1
Sauropoda indet.1 Marsh 1878 sauropod
ZLJ 0033 (nearly complete, articulated skeleton, orig. ID as L. huenei)
 Saurischia - Massospondylidae
Lufengosaurus huenei1
Lufengosaurus huenei1 Young 1940 sauropodomorph
ZLJ T001 (articulated, incomplete skeleton), ZLJ 0013
 Saurischia -
cf. Yunnanosaurus sp., Prosauropoda indet.
cf. Yunnanosaurus sp. Young 1940 sauropodomorph
ZLJ 0035 (partial skeleton with traces)
Prosauropoda indet. Huene 1920 prosauropod
ZLJ LF2007-20, 2007-21
 Theropoda -
Sinosaurus triassicus2
Sinosaurus triassicus2 Young 1940 China lizard
ZLJ T01, 003
Insecta
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Taotieichnus orientalis n. gen. n. sp.
Taotieichnus orientalis n. gen. n. sp. Xing et al. 2013 insect
ZLJ 0035 (traces on skeleton)
1Xing et al. 2015; 2Zhang et al. 2023