Sangyuan I tracksite (Cretaceous of China)

Where: Hebei, China (40.9° N, 117.1° E: paleocoordinates 43.6° N, 117.3° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Second Member (Xiguayuan Formation), Aptian (125.0 - 113.0 Ma)

• listed as Jiufotang Fm. in Lockley et al. 2014

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "channel"; fine-grained, medium, pebbly sandstone

• "delta front channel sandstone environment"
• "pebbly middle-fine sandstones"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collected by J. Gao & Z. Gao in 1995, 2014

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• "At the end of 2014, the Luanping County Bureau of Land and Resources collected all tracks and abandoned the original site"

Primary reference: M. Matsukawa, M. G. Lockley, and J. Li. 2006. Cretaceous terrestrial biotas of East Asia, with special reference to dinosaur-dominated ichnofaunas: towards a synthesis. Cretaceous Research 27(1):3-21 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 60461: 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
trackway SY-T1
Aves
  -
Aves indet. Linnaeus 1758 bird
tracks