Yizi tracksite (Cretaceous of China)

Where: Sichuan, China (28.0° N, 102.5° E: paleocoordinates 25.6° N, 108.7° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Second Member (Xiaoba Formation), Early/Lower Cretaceous (145.0 - 100.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; red, silty mudstone

• "dark purplish-red silty mudstone...developed mud cracks"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: trace

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: L. Xing, G. Yang, J. Cao, M. G. Lockley, H. Klein, J. Zhang, W. S. Persons, H. Hu, H. Shen, X. Zheng, and Y. Qin. 2015. Cretaceous saurischian tracksites from southwest Sichuan Province and overview of Late Cretaceous dinosaur track assemblages of China. Cretaceous Research 56:458-469 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 220013: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 29.04.2021

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Saurischia -
Sauropoda indet. Marsh 1878 sauropod
YZ-SI1 and SI2