Beikeshan, Yaozhan, Lufeng: Middle Jurassic, China
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Grallatoridae
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Lufengopus dongi n. gen., n. sp.
Lü et al. 2006
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| nomen dubium belonging to Eubrontes | ||||||||||
| HYMVC-1 | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | China | State/province: | Yunnan | County: | Lufeng |
| Coordinates: | 24.1° North, 102.1° East (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 24.3° North, 108.8° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Middle Jurassic |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Jurassic 3-5 | ||
| Key time interval: | Middle Jurassic | ||
| Age range of interval: | 174.70000 - 161.50000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Chuanjie | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: formerly the Upper Lufeng | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | red,blue mudstone |
| Secondary lithology: | green,yellow argillaceous,silty conglomerate |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "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." | |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | mold/impression,trace |
| Degree of concentration: | dispersed |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Spatial orientation: | life position |
| Disassociated major elements: | all |
| Fragmentation: | none |
| 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 |
Metadata
| Database number: | 66927 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2006-10-24 12:31:45 | Last modified: | 2023-03-09 12:53:08 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-10-24 12:31:45 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 19053. | 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] |
Secondary references:
| 83952 | L. Xing, M. G. Lockley, and A. Romilio. 2019. An unusual dinosaur track assemblage from the Jurassic–Cretaceous boundary, Anning formation, Lufeng Basin, China. Historical Biology 33(4):514-526 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 60850 | L.-d. Xing, J. D. Harris, S. Toru, F. Masato, and Z.-m. Dong. 2009. Discovery of dinosaur footprints from the Lower Jurassic Lufeng Formation of Yunnan Province, China and new observations on Changpeipus. Geological Bulletin of China 28(1):16-29 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 77366 | L.-D. Xing, M. G. Lockley, H. Klein, L.-J. Zhang, A. Romilio, W. S. Persons, G.-Z. Peng, Y. Ye, and M.-Y. Wang. 2021. The new ichnotaxon Eubrontes nobitai ichnosp. nov. and other saurischian tracks from the Lower Cretaceous of Sichuan Province and a review of Chinese Eubrontes-type tracks. Journal of Palaeogeography 10(17) [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |