Jinyuxi tracksite (Cretaceous to of China)

Also known as Yuanlin

Where: Sichuan, China (28.2° N, 105.8° E: paleocoordinates 27.9° N, 109.8° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Member (Jiaguan Formation), Barremian to Barremian (129.4 - 100.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: wet floodplain; burrowed siltstone and quartzose sandstone

• siltstone layer "associated with the feldspathic quartz sandstone"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collected by Y.-P. Lin, T. Xu, L-D. Xing in 2020

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: L.-D. Xing, M. G. Lockley, H. Klein, L.-J. Zhang, A. Romilio, W. S. Persons, G.-Z. Peng, Y. Ye, and M.-Y. Wang. 2021. The new ichnotaxon Eubrontes nobitai ichnosp. nov. and other saurischian tracks from the Lower Cretaceous of Sichuan Province and a review of Chinese Eubrontes-type tracks. Journal of Palaeogeography 10(17) [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 217078: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 21.01.2021, edited by Matthew Carrano

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Theropoda - Grallatoridae
Eubrontes nobitai n. sp. Xing et al. 2021 theropod
trackways JYX-T1, JYX-TI1, JYX-TI2
 Saurischia -
Brontopodus sp. Farlow et al. 1989 sauropod
trackways JYX-S1–S4
 Ichnofossils -
Taenidium sp. Heer 1877
Arenicolites sp. Salter 1857