Guanyingchong tracksite (Cretaceous to of China)

Also known as Kuanyinchon, Guanyuanchong

Where: Sichuan, China (29.1° N, 104.4° E: paleocoordinates 28.0° N, 108.0° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Jiaguan Formation (Chiating Group), Barremian to Barremian (129.4 - 100.5 Ma)

• = Jiading Group. Listed as "lower part" in ref 14230 and assigned to Upper Jurassic.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; coarse-grained, red sandstone

• "brick red sandstone"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace, soft parts

Collected by Young; reposited in the IVPP

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

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 60496: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 16.05.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Theropoda -
Yangtzepus yipingensis n. sp. Young 1960 theropod