Ssuchiatzu tracksite: Late/Upper Kimmeridgian - Valanginian, China
collected by S. Sato, C.-C. Young 1939, 1954
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Grallatoridae
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Jeholosauripus ssatoi n. gen., n. sp.
Yabe et al. 1940
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4 specimens | |||||||||
| recombined as Grallator ssatoi | ||||||||||
| footprints, Reg. No. 61677 | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | China | State/province: | Liaoning |
| Coordinates: | 41.2° North, 120.3° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 42.4° North, 122.6° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
| Altitude: | 80 meters | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Kimmeridgian - Valanginian |
| Age range of interval: | 152.20000 - 132.60000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Tuchengzi | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Formation is best correlated with the Heichengtzu series; originally considered Cretaceous, then "Eomesozoic" | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | coarse sandstone |
| Secondary lithology: | red conglomerate |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "The sandstone with footprints is coarse-grained, and belongs to a 50-100 m thick complex of reddish conglomerate interbedding some reddish tuffaceous shale and sandstone." "coarse-grained sandstone plates" | |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | mold/impression,trace |
| Degree of concentration: | concentrated |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Spatial orientation: | life position |
| Associated major elements: | many |
| Disassociated major elements: | many |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
| Spatial resolution: | autochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (float),mechanical,field collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
| Museum repositories: | IVPP | ||
| Collectors: | S. Sato, C.-C. Young | Collection dates: | 1939, 1954 |
| Collection method comments: second collecting expedition in 1954 from the IVPP | |||
| Taxonomic list comments:Registration Number of specimen refers to the Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Tôhoku Imperial University, Sendai. | |||
Metadata
| Also known as: | Sijiazi, Yangshan | ||
| Database number: | 55306 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | K. Maguire |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2005-10-07 09:59:30 | Last modified: | 2023-04-28 11:36:59 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-10-07 09:59:30 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 52142. | H. Yabe, Y. Inai, and T. Shikama. 1940. Dinosaurian footprints found near Yangshan, Chinchou, Manchoukou. Journal of the Geological Society of Japan 47:169-170 [M. Carrano/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] |
| 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] | |
| 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] | |
| 14778 | ETE | H. Yabe, Y. Inai, and T. Shikama. 1940. Discovery of dinosaurian footprints from the Cretaceous(?) of Yangshan, Chinchou. Preliminary note. Proceedings of The Imperial Academy of Tokyo 16(10):560-563 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/M. Carrano] |
| 24220 | ETE | C.-C. Young. 1960. Fossil footprints from China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 4(2):53-66 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |