Huazhuang tracksite: Barremian - Aptian, China
collected 1998

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Theropoda - Eubrontidae
Dinosauria indet. (Owen 1842)
4 specimens
HZ.1a–d
    = Asianopodus sp. Matsukawa et al. 2005
Xing et al. 2014
see common names

Geography
Country:China State/province:Gansu County:Lanzhou
Coordinates: 36.4° North, 102.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:36.7° North, 105.0° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Early/Lower Cretaceous
Key time interval:Barremian - Aptian
Age range of interval:125.77000 - 113.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Hekou Formation:6
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: No. 6 informal formation-level unit
Also assigned to the "Yanguoxia Formation"
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:wave ripples,"cross stratification",burrows,fine,gray,green sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "gray or gray-green fine sandstone...These fine sandstones have planar cross bedding"
Environment:lacustrine indet.
Geology comments: "lakeshore environment"
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:mold/impression,trace
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Spatial orientation:life position
Preservation of anatomical detail:medium
Associated major elements:some
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Spatial resolution:autochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collection dates:1998
Collection method comments: orig. discovered by researchers from China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), the Regional Investigation Team of Gansu Province
Metadata
Database number:224375
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2022-02-23 10:08:40 Last modified:2022-03-07 14:33:15
Access level:the public Released:2022-02-23 10:08:40
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

80579. X.-f. Cai, C.-a. Li, and C.-s. Zhan. 2001. [Characteristics of dinosaur footprint fossils in the Lanzhou-Minhe basin and their relation to the environment and tectonism]. Regional Geology of China 20(1):62-66 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

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]
80140 L.-D. Xing, G. Niedzwiedzki, M. G. Lockley, J.-P. Zhang, X.-F. Cia, W. S. Persons, and Y. Ye. 2014. Asianopodus-type footprints from the Hekou Group of Honggu District, Lanzhou City, Gansu, China and the “heel” of large theropod tracks. Palaeoworld 23(3-4):304-313 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]