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A Lower Cretaceous dinosaur track assemblage from the Taoqihe Formation in Central Heilongjiang, China | |
Xing, Lida1,2,3; Lockley, Martin G.4; Klein, Hendrik5; Qiu, Liang2; Chou, Chunyong2; Wang, Donghao2; Persons, W. Scott6 | |
2019-10-15 | |
Source Publication | PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY
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ISSN | 0031-0182 |
Volume | 532Pages:12 |
Abstract | An Early Cretaceous dinosaur ichnofauna is reported from the Taoqihe Formation (Aptian-Albian) in Heilongjiang Province, China. The assemblage, which comprises > 70 tracks in 5 trackways, includes parallel sauropod trackways, a toe-trace dominated tridactyl omithopod trackway and elongate tridactyl theropod tracks, the latter tentatively be attributed to swimming activity. The combination of possible swim and walking trackways suggest that they were formed at different times and in different environments. This is the first Lower Cretaceous tracksite reported from Heilongjiang Province with the exception of an historic record of a large pentadactyl track of probable thyreophoran (ankylosaurian) affinity. Ankylosaurian tracks are rare in China, and reported tentatively from only one other location. The dinosaur ichnofauna from the Taoqihe Formation is similar in composition to the skeletal assemblages of the Early Cretaceous Jehol Biota in the nearby Liaoning Province. The new track records are important for better understanding the palaeobiogeography and faunal developments of northeastern China and adjacent Russia. |
Keyword | Ankylosaur Sauropod Theropod Ornithopod Swim tracks |
DOI | 10.1016/j.palaeo.2019.109275 |
Language | 英语 |
WOS Keyword | SAUROPOD TRACKWAYS ; JEHOL BIOTA ; THEROPOD ; PROVINCE ; BASIN ; SWIM ; ICHNOTAXONOMY ; PRESERVATION ; DISCOVERIES ; FOOTPRINTS |
Funding Project | National Natural Science Foundation of China[41888101] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[41790455] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[41772008] ; Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities[2652017215] ; State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy (Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences)[173127] |
WOS Research Area | Physical Geography ; Geology ; Paleontology |
WOS Subject | Geography, Physical ; Geosciences, Multidisciplinary ; Paleontology |
WOS ID | WOS:000484871600013 |
Funding Organization | National Natural Science Foundation of China ; Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities ; State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy (Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences) |
Publisher | ELSEVIER |
Document Type | 期刊论文 |
Identifier | http://ir.nigpas.ac.cn/handle/332004/27894 |
Collection | 中国科学院南京地质古生物研究所 |
Corresponding Author | Xing, Lida |
Affiliation | 1.China Univ Geosci, State Key Lab Biogeol & Environm Geol, Beijing 100083, Peoples R China 2.China Univ Geosci, Sch Earth Sci & Resources, Beijing 100083, Peoples R China 3.Chinese Acad Sci, Nanjing Inst Geol & Palaeontol, State Key Lab Palaeobiol & Stratig, Nanjing 210008, Jiangsu, Peoples R China 4.Univ Colorado, Dinosaur Tracks Museum, POB 173364, Denver, CO 80217 USA 5.Saurierwelt Palaontol Museum, Alte Richt 7, D-92318 Neumarkt, Germany 6.Univ Alberta, Dept Biol Sci, 11455 Saskatchewan Dr, Edmonton, AB T6G 2E9, Canada |
First Author Affilication | Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeonotology,CAS |
Corresponding Author Affilication | Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeonotology,CAS |
Recommended Citation GB/T 7714 | Xing, Lida,Lockley, Martin G.,Klein, Hendrik,et al. A Lower Cretaceous dinosaur track assemblage from the Taoqihe Formation in Central Heilongjiang, China[J]. PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY,2019,532:12. |
APA | Xing, Lida.,Lockley, Martin G..,Klein, Hendrik.,Qiu, Liang.,Chou, Chunyong.,...&Persons, W. Scott.(2019).A Lower Cretaceous dinosaur track assemblage from the Taoqihe Formation in Central Heilongjiang, China.PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY,532,12. |
MLA | Xing, Lida,et al."A Lower Cretaceous dinosaur track assemblage from the Taoqihe Formation in Central Heilongjiang, China".PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY 532(2019):12. |
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