A review of the tetrapod track record in China, with special reference to type ichnospecies: implications for ichnotaxonomy and paleobiology

MG Lockley, LI Jianjun, LI Rihui… - Acta Geologica …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract “Splitting” and “lumping” are perpetual problems in vertebrate, especially dinosaur,
ichnotaxonomy. Chinese dinosaur ichnotaxonomy, which began in 1940, provides a series …

Osteology of the Late Jurassic Portuguese sauropod dinosaur Lusotitan atalaiensis (Macronaria) and the evolutionary history of basal titanosauriforms

PD Mannion, P Upchurch, RN Barnes… - Zoological Journal of …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Titanosauriforms represent a diverse and globally distributed clade of neosauropod
dinosaurs, but their inter-relationships remain poorly understood. Here we redescribe …

The vertebrates of the Jurassic Daohugou Biota of northeastern China

C Sullivan, Y Wang, DWE Hone, Y Wang… - Journal of Vertebrate …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT The Early Cretaceous Jehol Biota of northeastern China has become famous
over the last two decades as a source of feathered avialan and non-avialan theropods …

Vertebrate assemblages of the Jurassic Yanliao Biota and the Early Cretaceous Jehol Biota: comparisons and implications

ZH Zhou, Y Wang - Palaeoworld, 2017 - Elsevier
Although both the Yanliao and Jehol vertebrate assemblages are known for exceptional
preservation of feathered dinosaurs, mammals, pterosaurs, lizards, salamanders, and fish …

Jurassic–Cretaceous terrestrial transition red beds in northern North China and their implication on regional paleogeography, paleoecology, and tectonic evolution

H Xu, YQ Liu, HW Kuang, YX Liu, N Peng - Palaeoworld, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract The Jurassic–Cretaceous terrestrial transition red beds in the northern North China
Craton are associated with a number of major geological issues that remain controversial …

Theropod (Dinosauria: Saurischia) tracks from lower cretaceous Yixian formation at Sihetun Village, Liaoning Province, China and possible track makers

LD Xing, JD Harris, XY Feng, ZJ Zhang - Geological Bulletin of China, 2009 - dzhtb.cgs.cn
Herein we describe three and one half footprints that pertain to Grallator isp. from the Lower
Cretaceous Yixian Formation, Sihetun, Liaoning Province, China. This is the first description …

U–Pb SHRIMP age for the Tuchengzi Formation, northern China, and its implications for biotic evolution during the Jurassic–Cretaceous transition

H Xu, YQ Liu, HW Kuang, XJ Jiang, N Peng - Palaeoworld, 2012 - Elsevier
The Late Jurassic–Early Cretaceous Tuchengzi Formation is widespread in North China. Its
clastic deposits indicate a tropical, dry, and hot paleoclimate, different from the subtropical …

Hints of the early Jehol Biota: important dinosaur footprint assemblages from the Jurassic-Cretaceous Boundary Tuchengzi Formation in Beijing, China

L Xing, J Zhang, MG Lockley, RT McCrea, H Klein… - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
New reports of dinosaur tracksites in the Tuchengzi Formation in the newly established
Yanqing Global Geopark, Beijing, China, support previous inferences that the track …

A new dinosaur track site from the earliest Cretaceous (Berriasian) part of the Tuchengzi Formation, Hebei Province, China: Implications for morphology, ontogeny and …

L Xing, MG Lockley, Z Mao, H Klein, Z Gu, C Bai… - Palaeogeography …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The Jurassic-Cretaceous Tuchengzi Formation has yielded at least 16 known
theropod-dominated tracksites from northeast China, and in this paper, a new locality, the …

An unusual theropod track assemblage from the Cretaceous of the Zhucheng area, Shandong Province, China

R Li, MG Lockley, M Matsukawa, K Wang, M Liu - Cretaceous Research, 2011 - Elsevier
More than 125 footprints of theropods from the Cretaceous Longwangzhuang Formation
have been mapped in a preliminary study at a site in the Zhucheng region of China. The …