Nanshuangmiao tracksite, Xinzhangzi: Tithonian - Berriasian, China
collected by C. Han 2007
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
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Anchisauripus sp.
Lull 1904
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9 specimens | |||||||||
| probably an oviraptorosaur; IVPP VC 15815 | ||||||||||
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= Theropoda indet.
Marsh 1881
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Xing et al. 2015 | |||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | China | State/province: | Hebei | County: | Chengde |
| Coordinates: | 40.8° North, 117.9° East (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 41.9° North, 120.3° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Key time interval: | Tithonian - Berriasian |
| Age range of interval: | 149.20000 - 139.80000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Houcheng | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: argue against use of Tuchengzi for layer in Hebei prov.; lower part of formation, bracketed by beds dated at 152.57 ± 0.34 Ma and 135 Ma. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | current ripples,coarse sandstone |
| Secondary lithology: | mudstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: tracks in mudstone layer; coarse sandstone and conglomerate layers common | |
| Environment: | alluvial fan |
| Geology comments: "steeply dipping coarse fluvial deposits...which represent the distal toe of a large alluvial system that fed into the region from the north"; track layer "probably represents a mud drape on a fluvial gravel bar" | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | cast,trace |
| Degree of concentration: | concentrated |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Spatial orientation: | life position |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
| Associated major elements: | many |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
| Spatial resolution: | autochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,surface (in situ),peel or thin section,field collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis | ||
| Museum repositories: | IVPP | ||
| Collectors: | C. Han | Collection dates: | 2007 |
Metadata
| Database number: | 89053 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2009-05-01 12:50:09 | Last modified: | 2023-01-10 11:55:23 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2009-05-01 12:50:09 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 29888. | ETE | C. Sullivan, D. W. E. Hone, T. D. Cope, Y. Liu, and J. Liu. 2009. A new occurrence of small theropod tracks in the Houcheng (Tuchengzi) Formation of Hebei Province, China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 47(1):35-52 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 83608 | M. Antonelli, M. Romano, F. De Sario, J. Pignatti, E. Sacco and F. M. Petti. 2023. Inferred oviraptorosaur footprints in the Apenninic Carbonate Platform: new tools for the identification of trackmakers from the Sezze ichnosite (lower-middle Cenomanian; central Italy). Cretaceous Research 141 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 76726 | L. Xing, M. G. Lockley, T. Du, L. Zhang, H. Klein, A. Romilio, W. S. Persons, K. Wang, Z. Li and X. Wan. 2020. Dinosaur tracks from the Jurassic-Cretaceous boundary Tuchengzi Formation (Hebei Province, China) used as building stones in the Chengde imperial summer resort: age, ichnology, and . Cretaceous Research 107 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 76729 | L. Xing, J. Zhang, M. G. Lockley, R. T. McCrea, H. Klein, L. Alcalá, L. G. Buckley, M. E. Burns, S. B. Kümmell and Q. He. 2015. Hints of the early Jehol Biota: important dinosaur footprint assemblages from the Jurassic-Cretaceous boundary Tuchengzi Formation in Beijing, China. PLoS ONE 10(4):e0122715:1-34 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 76728 | L. D. Xing, Y. Q. Liu, H. W. Kuang, H. Klein, J. P. Zhang, M. E. Burns, J. Chen, M. W. Wang, and J. Hu. 2014. Theropod and possible ornithopod track assemblages from the Jurassic–Cretaceous boundary Houcheng Formation, Shangyi, northern Hebei, China. Palaeoworld 23:200-208 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 60852 | L.-d. Xing, J. D. Harris, X.-y. Feng and Z.-j. Zhang. 2009. Theropoda (Dinosauria: Saurischia) tracks from the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation at Sihetun Village, Liaoning Province, China and possible track makers. Geological Bulletin of China 28(6):705-712 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 76761 | L.-d. Xing, J. D. Harris, and G. D. Gierlinski. 2011. Therangospodus and Megalosauripus track assemblage from the Upper Jurassic–Lower Cretaceous Tuchengzi Formation of Chicheng County, Hebei Province, China and their paleoecological implications. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 49(4):423-434 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |