Yanguoxia pterosaur tracksite: Barremian - Aptian, China
collected by M. Lockley 2013

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Pterosauria - Pteraichnidae
Pteraichnus sp. Stokes 1957
21 specimens
Y-PS-1 to 21
Demospongiae - Dictyoceratida - Dysideidae
Spongeliomorpha carlsbergi (Bromley and Asgaard 1979)
unclassified
Cochlichnus anguineus Hitchcock 1858
Palaeophycus tubularis Hall 1847
see common names

Geography
Country:China State/province:Gansu County:Linxia Hui
Coordinates: 36.1° North, 103.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:36.5° North, 105.5° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Altitude:1600 meters
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Early Cretaceous
Stage: Barremian - Aptian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 2 - Cretaceous 3
Key time interval: Barremian - Aptian
Age range of interval: 125.77 - 113 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Hekou Formation:6
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: 20 m above main Yanguoxia site
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:lacustrine - small
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:cast,trace
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Spatial orientation:life position
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Associated major elements:some
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Spatial resolution:autochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),observed (not collected)
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collectors:M. Lockley Collection dates:2013
Metadata
Database number:224356
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2022-02-18 08:32:53 Last modified:2022-02-18 08:32:53
Access level:the public Released:2022-02-18 08:32:53
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
79942. D. Li, L. Xing, M. G. Lockley, L. Piñuela, J. Zhang, H. Dai, J. Y. Kim, W. S. Persons, and D. Kong. 2015. A manus dominated pterosaur track assemblage from Gansu, China: implications for behavior. Science Bulletin 60(2):264-272 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]