Fuxin coal mine tracksite (Cretaceous to of China)

Also known as Fusin

Where: Liaoning, China (42.0° N, 121.7° E: paleocoordinates 46.5° N, 118.9° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Fuxin Formation (Jehol Group), Aptian to Aptian (125.0 - 100.5 Ma)

• "basal part of the Fusin coal-bearing beds, the Haichow Series"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; coal and fine-grained, gray, argillaceous sandstone

• "fine muddy sandstone" from coal mine, light grey matrix

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collection methods: salvage,

• collected from debris of mine

Primary reference: C.-C. Young. 1960. Fossil footprints from China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 4(2):53-66 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 60459: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 15.05.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia -
Ornithopoda indet. ornithopod
tracks
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet. theropod
tracks
Aves
  -
Aves indet. Linnaeus 1758 bird
tracks
Reptilia
 Avetheropoda -
Changpeipus carbonicus Young 1960 carnosaur
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