Wang tracksite (Jurassic of China)

Also known as Longweimiao, Wangzhuang

Where: Shaanxi, China (37.7° N, 109.8° E: paleocoordinates 40.6° N, 114.3° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Yanan Formation, Middle Jurassic (174.7 - 161.5 Ma)

• 2 horizons, 6 m apart. "early Middle Jurassic"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; quartzose sandstone and red claystone

• "feldspathic quartz sandstone underlying a layer of red clay"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression, trace

Collected by J. Wang, Y. Li in 2011–2012

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: L. Xing, M. G. Lockley, Y. Tang, H. Klein, J. Zhang, W. S. Persons, H. Dai and Y. Ye. 2015. Theropod and ornithischian footprints from the Middle Jurassic Yanan Formation of Zizhou County, Shaanxi, China. Ichnos 22(1):1-11 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 182636: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 15.11.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Moyenisauropodidae
Anomoepus sp. Hitchcock 1848 ornithopod
CUGB-TZ1
 Ornithischia -
Deltapodus sp. Whyte and Romano 1995 ornithischian
WTM1-WTP1, WTM2-WTP2, WTP3-WTM3, WTM4-WTP4