Yuanjitun, Cangling tracksite 4: Turonian - Coniacian, China

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
Chuxiongpus sp. Chen and Huang 1993
1 specimen
pes print
see common names

Geography
Country:China State/province:Yunnan County:Chuxiong
Coordinates: 25.0° North, 101.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:22.7° North, 100.4° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Late Cretaceous
Stage: Turonian - Coniacian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 6
Key time interval: Turonian - Coniacian
Age range of interval: 93.9 - 86.3 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Jiangdihe Member:Luozuomei
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: lower part of the Jiangdihe Formation; probably Turonian or Turonian-?Coniacian
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:red sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:mold/impression,trace
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Spatial orientation:life position
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
Metadata
Also known as:Yuanjiatun 4
Database number:60490
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:K. Maguire
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2006-05-16 10:32:27 Last modified:2022-02-16 12:45:08
Access level:the public Released:2006-05-16 10:32:27
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
19449.ETE M. G. Lockley, J. L. Wright, D. White, M. Matsukawa, J. Li, L. Feng, and H. Li. 2002. The first sauropod footprints from China. Cretaceous Research 23:363-381 [M. Carrano/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]
16852ETE M. Matsukawa, M. G. Lockley, and J. Li. 2006. Cretaceous terrestrial biotas of East Asia, with special reference to dinosaur-dominated ichnofaunas: towards a synthesis. Cretaceous Research 27(1):3-21 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]