An Ornithopod-Dominated Tracksite from the Lower Cretaceous Jiaguan Formation (Barremian-Albian) of Qijiang, South-Central China: New Discoveries, Ichnotaxonomy, Preservation and Palaeoecology.

The historically-famous Lotus Fortress site, a deep 1.5-3.0-meter-high, 200-meter-long horizonal notch high up in near-vertical sandstone cliffs comprising the Cretaceous Jiaguan Formation, has been known since the 13th Century as an impregnable defensive position. The site is also extraordinary for...

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Main Authors: Lida Xing, Martin G Lockley, Daniel Marty, Jianping Zhang, Yan Wang, Hendrik Klein, Richard T McCrea, Lisa G Buckley, Matteo Belvedere, Octávio Mateus, Gerard D Gierliński, Laura Piñuela, W Scott Persons, Fengping Wang, Hao Ran, Hui Dai, Xianming Xie
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4619635?pdf=render