Beilianchi tracksite (Cretaceous of China)

Also known as Liupanshan

Where: Ningxia, China (35.7° N, 106.2° E: paleocoordinates 36.7° N, 108.7° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Madongshan Formation (Liupanshan Group), Early/Lower Cretaceous (145.0 - 100.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; gray, green, silty mudstone

• "Grey-grey-green, grey-yellow surface weathering, thin-medium-thick layer structure, silty-muddy structure, softer and more fragmented rock, which is fragmented and granular after weathering."

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collected by Ningxia Geological Museum, CAGS in 2015

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: Q. Yang, J.-c. Lü, J.-m. Wang, K.-c. Yang, M. Zhao, Y. Zhao, Y. Wan, L.-x. Wei, L.-y. Zong, Z.-l. Liu, J.-z. Zhu and J.-y. Han. 2019. [A study of Early Cretaceous dinosaur tracks in Liupanshan area, Ningxia]. Acta Geoscientica Sinica 40(3):483-491 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 224354: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 17.02.2022

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Saurischia -
Sauropoda indet.
Sauropoda indet. Marsh 1878 sauropod
trackways