Also known as Siliang, Chicheng

Where: Hebei, China (40.8° N, 115.9° E: paleocoordinates 41.8° N, 118.1° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Tuchengzi Formation, Late/Upper Kimmeridgian to Late/Upper Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 132.9 Ma)

• "The tracks occur in a horizon high in the Tuchengzi Formation"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; gray, blue, conglomeratic sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: trace

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

• "A complete natural mold, catalogued as T. A. 1, from the Nijiagou tracksite. An artificial mold of the track, (Figs. 2-3, Table 1) is stored at the Lufeng Dinosaur Research Center, where it is catalogued as LDRC-v. x. 8. The original track remains in the field."

Primary reference: L.-d. Xing, J. D. Harris, D.-h. Sun and H.-q. Zhao. 2009. The earliest known deinonychosaur tracks from the Jurassic-Cretaceous boundary in Hebei Province, China. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 48(4):662-671 [M. Carrano/M. Oreska/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 97752: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Oreska on 27.08.2010, edited by Matthew Carrano

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