Beikeshan, Yaozhan, Lufeng (Jurassic of China)

Where: Yunnan, China (24.1° N, 102.1° E: paleocoordinates 24.3° N, 108.8° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Chuanjie Formation, Middle Jurassic (174.7 - 161.5 Ma)

• formerly the Upper Lufeng

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; red, blue mudstone and green, yellow, argillaceous, silty conglomerate

• "purple-reddish, medium to thick mudstone, inter-bedded with the yellowish-green, silty mud conglomerate. Well-developed shallow purple-gray mud-cracks are present 10 cm below the dinosaur-bearing layer."

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

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

Primary reference: J. Lü, Y. Azuma, T. Wang, S. Li, and S. Pan. 2006. The first discovery of dinosaur footprint from Lufeng of Yunnan province, China. Memoir of the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum 5:35-39 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 66927: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 24.10.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Theropoda - Grallatoridae
Lufengopus dongi n. gen. n. sp.
Lufengopus dongi n. gen. n. sp. Lü et al. 2006 theropod
HYMVC-1