Sinsu Island tracksite (upper middle Haman) (Cretaceous to of South Korea)

Also known as KML2, Sinsudo

Where: Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea (34.9° N, 128.1° E: paleocoordinates 43.3° N, 125.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Haman Formation (Hayang Group), Aptian to Aptian (125.0 - 100.5 Ma)

• upper middle part of the Haman Formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; bioturbated, fine-grained sandstone and bioturbated, black siltstone

• "lakeshore environment"
• "well laminated fine-grained sandstone with mud cracks and ripple marks...invertebrate trace fossils including Cochlichnus anguineus and Helminthoidichnites tenuis occur on the bedding surfaces of the black shale"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, trace

Collection methods: surface (in situ), peel or thin section,

• 3 trackways and about 30 tracks of Pteraichnus

Primary reference: J. Y. Kim, S. H. Kim, K. S. Kim and M. G. Lockley. 2006. The oldest record of webbed bird and pterosaur tracks from South Korea (Cretaceous Haman Formation, Changseon and Sinsu Islands): more evidence of high avian diversity in East Asia. Cretaceous Research 27:56-69 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 59176: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 20.03.2006, edited by Matthew Carrano

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Plantae indet. Haeckel 1866
"plants"
Reptilia
 Pterosauria - Pteraichnidae
Pteraichnus sp. Stokes 1957 pterosaur
trackways; KNUE 040176
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet. Marsh 1881 theropod
tracks
Aves
  -
Aves indet. Linnaeus 1758 bird
"bird footprints"
Reptilia
 Ornithischia -
Minisauripus sp. Zhen et al. 1994 ornithischian
KNUE 051101/CU 214.102, CU 214.129
 Saurischia -
Sauropoda indet. sauropod
tracks
 Ichnofossils -
Palaeophycus sp. Hall 1847
Cochlichnus anguineus Hitchcock 1858