Yangmozu site I tracksite (Cretaceous to of China)

Also known as YMZI, Yangmozou

Where: Sichuan, China (28.3° N, 102.8° E: paleocoordinates 25.7° N, 107.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Member (Feitianshan Formation), Berriasian to Berriasian (145.0 - 125.0 Ma)

• three track-bearing surfaces

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; medium-grained, quartzose, red sandstone

• fluvial and lacustrine delta facies; lakeshore environment
• "purplish red, medium-grained quartzose sandstone"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, trace

Collected in 2013

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: L. Xing, M. G. Lockley, G. Yang, J. Cao, M. Benton, X. Xu, J. Zhang, H. Klein, W. S. Persons, J. Y. Kim, G. Peng, Y. Ye, and H. Ran. 2016. A new Minisauripus site from the Lower Cretaceous of China: tracks of small adults or juveniles?. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 452:28-39 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 220001: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 29.04.2021

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet., cf. Jialingpus sp.
Theropoda indet. Marsh 1881 theropod
Trackways T1, 3–10, 14–15, and isolated tracks TI1–9 ("morphotype C")
cf. Jialingpus sp. Zhen et al. 1983 theropod
trackway YMZ-T2 ("morphotype B")
 Ornithischia -
Minisauripus zhenshuonani
Minisauripus zhenshuonani Lockley et al. 2008 ornithischian
trackways YMZ-T11–T13 ("morphotype A")