Chu Island tracksite, Namhae: Aptian - Albian, South Korea

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Dromaeopodidae
Dromaeosauripus hamanensis n. gen., n. sp. Kim et al. 2008
1 individual
trackway, KNUE (Korea National University of Education) 060801
see common names

Geography
Country:South Korea State/province:Gyeongsangnam-do
Coordinates: 34.9° North, 128.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:43.3° North, 125.2° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Early/Lower Cretaceous
Key time interval:Aptian - Albian
Age range of interval:121.40000 - 100.50000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Hayang Formation:Haman
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: "...corresponding to the middle part of a black shale zone that is located stratigraphically between about 1000 m and 1080 m above the base of the Haman Formation."
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:fine,tuffaceous siltstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "fine-grained, tuffaceous sandstone and siltstone...Didactyl tracks occur there on a single beddingsurface on the east coast of the island in fine-grained, lake margin sandstones"
Environment:lacustrine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:mold/impression,trace
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Spatial orientation:life position
Associated major elements:some
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Spatial resolution:autochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),peel or thin section,field collection,observed (not collected)
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:IVPP
Metadata
Also known as:Changseon
Database number:167348
Authorizer:P. Mannion, M. Carrano Enterer:P. Mannion, M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2015-03-12 05:54:26 Last modified:2022-02-16 13:30:48
Access level:the public Released:2015-03-12 05:54:26
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
70691. J. Y. Kim, K. S. Kim, M. G. Lockley, S. Y. Yang, S. J. Seo, H. I. Choi, and J. D. Lim. 2008. New didactyl dinosaur footprints (Dromaeosauripus hamanensis ichnogen. et ichnosp. nov.) from the Early Cretaceous Haman Formation, south coast of Korea. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 262(1–2):72-78 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

76749 J. Y. Kim, M. G. Lockley, K. S. Kim, S. J. Seo, and J. D. Lim. 2012. Enigmatic giant pterosaur tracks and associated ichnofauna from the Cretaceous of Korea: implication for the bipedal locomotion of pterosaurs. Ichnos 19(1_2):50-65 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
79876 M. G. Lockley, L. Xing, J. Y. Kim and M. Matsukawa. 2014. Tracking Lower Cretaceous Dinosaurs in China: a new database for comparison with ichnofaunal data from Korea, the Americas, Europe, Africa and Australia . Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 113:770-789 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]