XING Lida; NIU Kecheng; LOCKLEY, Martin G.; GUO Ying; TANG Yonggang; PERSONS, W. Scott, IV & RAN Hao (2019)
Cretaceous dinosaur tracks from Maling Mountain of Xinyi City, Jiangsu Province: From tiger to carnivorous dinosaur and from folklore to paleontology
Geological Bulletin of China 38(6): 905-910
Four enigmatic depressions, traditionally referred to as "tiger's paw traces" and "human footprints" from "Li Cunxiao Fighting Tiger" site of the Maling Mountain area in Xinyi City of Jiangsu Province are here interpreted as dinosaur tracks belonging to the Early Cretaceous Tianjialou Formation of the Dasheng Group. Only one of the "tiger's paw traces" at the largest depth preserves recognizable digit tracks, suggesting it is a left theropod track, with posterior medial hallux trace, forming part of a linear trackway with steps of ~50 cm. Alternatively, the track may be a small sauropod right pes track forming part of a trackway in which the left side footprints were not registered. Malingshan tracksite demonstrates another case of how dinosaur tracks influenced Chinese folklore.
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JIANG Tao, TANG Ying, XIAO Zhen-hua & WANG Da-chun (2019)
A Research of the Late Cretaceous Dinosaur Fauna in Tianyuan, Zhuzhou and Measures Proposed for Their Protection and Utilization.
Journal of Southwest University (Natural Science) 41(5): Â37-43 (in Chinese)
DOI: 10.13718/j.cnki.xdzk.2019.05.006
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http://xbgjxt.swu.edu.cn/jsuns/jsuns/ch/reader/create_pdf.aspx?file_no=201905006&year_id=2019&quarter_id=5&falg=1Zhuzhou Dinosaur Fossil Site has the rare location advantage of being in the center of a city and an important scientific and economic value for producing a variety of dinosaurs. The authors of this paper have made a detailed study of the fossiliferous strata and dinosaur fauna of the site, and propose that for the sake of the protection and utilization of the fossil resources and the promotion of popular science education, a Cretaceous Dinosaur Museum be built with a dinosaur park surrounding it. In this paper a comparison is also made between Zhuzhou dinosaur fauna and the Late Cretaceous dinosaur faunas of other sites of the country.
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The controversial dinosauriform Teyuwasu barberenai Kischlat, 1999 (Fig. 1B) is based on a right femur (BSPG AS XXV 53) and tibia (BSPG AS XXV 54), formerly referred to the pseudosuchian 'Hoplitosuchus raui' (= Hoplitosaurus raui) Huene, 1938 (see also Huene, 1942). This material comes from a classic Late Triassic (Carnian) locality in southern Brazil (Fig. 1A), the Cerro da Alemoa outcrop on the Alemoa complex, that has yielded several noteworthy tetrapod specimens (see Garcia et al., 2019, for a complete list of references). When reviewing these abovementioned materials, Kischlat (1999) considered it to belong to a "robust saurischian dinosaur", but later this taxon was considered to be a nomen dubium (Langer et al., 2010; Ezcurra, 2012). Foremost, the initial description of this taxon is problematic, because Kischlat (1999) presented it in a symposium abstract which does not constitute a published work [which is not allowed under the Art. 9.10 of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN)]. Moreover, the author did not list traits that clearly differentiated Teyuwasu from other coeval dinosauriforms (cf. Art. 13 of the ICZN, see further below). In particular, it was not adequately distinguished from Staurikosaurus pricei Colbert, 1970 (Fig. 1B), which also comes from the same Alemoa complex, but from another nearby outcrop (Sanga Grande/Sanga de Baixo) considered equivalent in stratigraphic level and horizon with the lower levels of the Cerro da Alemoa site (Huene, 1942; Colbert, 1970; see also Garcia et al., 2019) (Fig. 1A). However, Huene (1942) did not clearly specify that the materials (femur and tibia) later assembled by Kischlat (1999) into the holotype of Teyuwasu were found in close association, although Huene (1942) cited that they come from the same stratigraphical level and horizon, and to our interpretation, their morphology and preservational features are compatible. Still, assigning these bones as part of a single individual is tentative.