Tongfosi, Yanji tracksite: Early/Lower Cenomanian, China
collected by M. Matsukawa, L. Xing 1995, 2015
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
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Dinosauria indet.
(Owen 1842)
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Xing et al. 2017 | 6 specimens | ||||||||
| tracks TFS-F3–F8; quadrupeds, could be sauropod or thyreophoran | ||||||||||
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? Ornithopoda indet.
(Marsh 1881)
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Xing et al. 2017 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
| TFS-F2 | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Iguanodontipodidae
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Iguanodontidae indet.
Bonaparte 1850
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3 specimens | |||||||||
| tracks; TFS-O1, O2, NIGPAS12156 | ||||||||||
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= Caririchnium sp.
Leonardi 1984
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Xing et al. 2017 | |||||||||
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Reptilia
- Grallatoridae
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Theropoda indet.
Marsh 1881
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14 specimens | |||||||||
| tracks; TFS-T1–T14 | ||||||||||
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= cf. Grallator sp.
Hitchcock 1858
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Xing et al. 2017 | |||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | China | State/province: | Jilin |
| Coordinates: | 42.9° North, 129.2° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 49.5° North, 121.1° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
| Altitude: | 220 meters | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Cenomanian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 5 |
| Key time interval: | Early/Lower Cenomanian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 100.50000 - 93.90000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "The dinosaur tracks were discovered as casts on the underside of sandstone beds, which represent sand bar, and flood sand units in inter-channel deposits." | |
| Environment: | fluvial indet. |
| Geology comments: "fan delta-lacustrine depositional environments" | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | cast,trace |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Spatial orientation: | life position |
| Associated major elements: | some |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
| Spatial resolution: | autochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,surface (float),surface (in situ),mechanical,field collection,observed (not collected) | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis | ||
| Collectors: | M. Matsukawa, L. Xing | Collection dates: | 1995, 2015 |
Metadata
| Database number: | 55193 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | K. Maguire, M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2005-09-28 11:24:34 | Last modified: | 2022-02-16 12:37:22 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-09-28 11:24:34 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 14665. | ETE | M. Matsukawa, M. Futakami, M. G. Lockley, C. Peiji, C. Jinhua, C. Zhenyao, and U. L. Bolotsky. 1995. Dinosaur footprints from the Lower Cretaceous of eastern Manchuria, northeastern China: implications for the recognition of an ornithopod ichnofacies in East Asia. Palaios 10:3-15 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 14092 | ETE | M. G. Lockley and M. Matsukawa. 1998. Lower Cretaceous vertebrate tracksites of East Asia. In S. G. Lucas, J. I. Kirkland, and J. W. Estep (eds.), Lower and Middle Cretaceous Terrestrial Ecosystems, New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 14:135-142 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 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] | |
| 16852 | ETE | 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] |
| 17539 | ETE | D. J. Nichols, M. Matsukawa, and M. Ito. 2006. Palynology and age of some Cretaceous nonmarine deposits in Mongolia and China. Cretaceous Research 27:241-251 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 76753 | L. Xing, M. G. Lockley, D. Marty, J. Zhang, Y. Wang, H. Klein, R. T. McCrea, L. G. Buckley, M. Belvedere, O. Mateus, G. D. Gierliński, L. Piñuela, W. Scott Persons, IV, F. Wang, H. Ran, H. Dai, and X. Xie. 2015. An ornithopod-dominated tracksite from the Lower Cretaceous Jiaguan Formation (Barremian-Albian) of Qijiang, south-central China: new discoveries, ichnotaxonomy, preservation and palaeoecology. PLoS ONE 10(10):e0141059:1-44 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 76750 | L. Xing, M. G. Lockley, K. S. Kim, H. Klein, M. Matsukawa, J. D. Lim, W. S. Persons and X. Xu. 2017. Mid-Cretaceous dinosaur track assemblage from the Tongfosi Formation of China: comparison with the track assemblage of South Korea. Cretaceous Research 74:155-164 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |