Luofenggou tracksite (Jurassic to of China)

Also known as Luofengpo, Chicheng

Where: Hebei, China (40.8° N, 115.9° E: paleocoordinates 41.9° N, 118.1° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Tuchengzi Formation, Late/Upper Kimmeridgian to Late/Upper Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 132.9 Ma)

• "The tracks occur in a horizon high in the Tuchengzi Formation"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; gray, blue, conglomeratic sandstone

• "The fossil-bearing horizon is a grayish-purple, conglomeratic sandstone in the Tuchengzi Formation"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: trace

Collected by D.-h. Sun, Z. Dong, Y. Azuma in 2001, 2008–2009

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: M. G. Lockley, L. Xing, J. Y. Kim and M. Matsukawa. 2014. Tracking Lower Cretaceous Dinosaurs in China: a new database for comparison with ichnofaunal data from Korea, the Americas, Europe, Africa and Australia . Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 113:770-789 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 182651: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 17.11.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet.1 Marsh 1881 theropod
LF 127–131
 Theropoda - Eubrontidae
Megalosauripus sp.2 Lessertisseur 1955 theropod
LF 126
 Theropoda -
Therangospodus sp.2 Lockley et al. 2000 theropod
LF 1, LF 2