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DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2015.01.028
论文题名:
Tracking the yellow dragons: Implications of China's largest dinosaur tracksite (Cretaceous of the Zhucheng area, Shandong Province, China)
作者: Lockley M.G.; Li R.; Matsukawa M.; Xing L.; Li J.; Liu M.; Xu X.
刊名: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology
ISSN: 0031-0182
出版年: 2015
卷: 423
起始页码: 62
结束页码: 79
语种: 英语
英文关键词: China ; Footprints ; Lower Cretaceous ; Sauropods ; Shandong Province ; Theropods ; Turtles
英文摘要: Surfaces with more than 2200 dinosaur footprints from the Huanglonggou (Yellow Dragon Valley) site near Zhucheng, in Shandong Province, were excavated for scientific study and with a view to future development as an educational site suitable for further research and tourism. Although geographically close to spectacular and historically famous Upper Cretaceous sites yielding vast bone assemblages, representing giant hadrosaurs and other dinosaurs from the Wangshi Group, the tracksite is in the Lower Cretaceous Yangjiazhuang Formation (equivalent in part to the Longwangzhuang Formation), represents an entirely different dinosaurian fauna, dominated by small theropods. In contrast to a recent pre-excavation study of a localized outcrop which identified only three theropod track morphotypes, in a sample of 135 tracks, the present study has identified at least 2000 additional tracks including those of sauropods and turtles. It is therefore possible to present a more complete interpretation of the site based on the larger and more diverse track assemblage presently exposed. Three theropod track morphotypes are identified as grallatorid morphotypes A and B, with the latter assigned to Grallator yangi comb. nov., and Corpulentapus lilasia. Tracks have been identified from at least 5 levels, of which level 4 exhibits the vast majority in an excellent state of preservation. Other recent studies, which we re-evaluate, suggest the tracks help define an ENE-WSW shoreline with the lake center to the SSE. In terms of number of tracks documented the Huanglonggou site is one of the largest dinosaur tracksites in China, or indeed in the world. © 2015 Elsevier B.V.
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标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/69011
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作者单位: Dinosaur Trackers Research Group, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, CO, United States; Qingdao Institute of Marine Geology, China Geological Survey, Qingdao, China; Department of Environmental Sciences, Tokyo Gakugei University, Koganei, Tokyo, Japan; School of the Earth Sciences and Resources, China University of Geosciences, Beijing, China; Beijing Museum of Natural History, Beijing, China; Shandong Provincial No.4 Institute of Geological and Mineral Resources, Weifang, China; Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Beijing, China

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Lockley M.G.,Li R.,Matsukawa M.,et al. Tracking the yellow dragons: Implications of China's largest dinosaur tracksite (Cretaceous of the Zhucheng area, Shandong Province, China)[J]. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology,2015-01-01,423
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