Lijiananwa tracksite, Shenmu: Early/Lower Jurassic, China

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Moyenisauropodidae
Anomoepus sp. Hitchcock 1848
Reptilia - Grallatoridae
Grallator sp. Hitchcock 1858
see common names

Geography
Country:China State/province:Shaanxi County:Shenmu
Coordinates: 38.8° North, 110.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:47.3° North, 118.2° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Early/Lower Jurassic
10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 1-3
Key time interval:Early/Lower Jurassic
Age range of interval:201.40000 - 174.70000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Yanan
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:trace
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Spatial orientation:life position
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Spatial resolution:autochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),peel or thin section,observed (not collected)
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:126539
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2012-04-06 05:00:28 Last modified:2023-03-09 13:05:02
Access level:the public Released:2012-04-06 05:00:28
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

41028. J. Li, M. G. Lockley, Y. Zhang, S. Hu, M. Matsukawa and Z. Bai. 2012. An important ornithischian tracksite in the Early Jurassic of the Shenmu region, Shaanxi, China. Acta Geologica Sinica 86(1):1-10 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

60826 L. Xing, M. G. Lockley, H. Klein, P. L. Falkingham, J. Y. Kim, R. T. McCrea, J. Zhang, W. S. Persons, T. Wang and Z. Wang. 2016. First Early Jurassic small ornithischian tracks from Yunnan Province, southwestern China. Palaios 31:516-524 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
83955 L. Xing, M. G. Lockley, H. Klein, G. D. GierliƄski, Y. Ye, J. Zhang, W. S. Persons and T. Wang. 2017. First thyreophoran type tracks from the Middle Jurassic Chuanjie Formation of Yunnan Province, China. Ichnos 28(1):8-15 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]