Sijiaban tracksite: Late/Upper Kimmeridgian - Valanginian, China
collected 2004

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
cf. Jialingpus sp. Zhen et al. 1983
Xing et al. 2015 17 specimens
size classes B, C
Reptilia - Grallatoridae
Theropoda indet. Marsh 1881
119 specimens
size class A
    = Grallator sp. Hitchcock 1858
Xing et al. 2011
see common names

Geography
Country:China State/province:Liaoning County:Nanbajiazi
Coordinates: 41.7° North, 120.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:42.8° North, 123.0° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
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
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:coarse,gray,green sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "greenish gray coarse sandstone"
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:all
Fragmentation:none
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Spatial resolution:autochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),observed (not collected)
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection dates:Oct 2004
Metadata
Also known as:Nanbajiazi, Nabajiazi, Nan Pachazu
Database number:74734
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2007-08-27 12:25:28 Last modified:2023-04-28 11:37:11
Access level:the public Released:2007-08-27 12:25:28
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
25163.ETE M. Fujita, Y. Azuma, and Y.-N. Lee, J., Z. Dong, Y. Noda, and K. Urano. 2007. New theropod track site from the Upper Jurassic Tuchengzi Formation of Liaoning province, northeastern China. Memoir of the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum 6:17-25 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

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]
60854 L. Xing, A. Mayor, Y. Chen, J. D. Harris, and M. E. Burns. 2011. The folklore of dinosaur trackways in China: impact on paleontology. Ichnos 18(4):213-220 [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]
60857 L. Xing, J. Zhang, H. Klein, A. Mayor, Y. Chen, H. Dai, M. E. Burns, J. Gao, Y. Tang and S. Dong. 2015. Dinosaur tracks, myths and buildings: the Jin Ji (Golden Chicken) stones from Zizhou area, northern Shaanxi, China. Ichnos 22(3–4):227-234 [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]