Cretaceous Dinosaur and Pterosaur Tracks from the Jiaguan Formation in Sichuan, China

A 2026 dataset from figshare by Lida Xing, licensed under CC-BY-4.0. It documents the distribution of tetrapod tracks, including dinosaurs and pterosaurs, at the Bajiedong tracksite in Southwest China. The dataset is stored in a RAR archive and its specific size and row count are not provided.

Use Cases

• Mapping the spatial distribution of tetrapod tracks based on the described tracksite areas.
• Analyzing trackway patterns and potential behavior of Cretaceous dinosaurs and pterosaurs.
• Correlating ichnological findings with other geological data from the Jiaguan Formation.

Strengths

• Data is openly licensed under CC-BY-4.0.
• Focuses on a specific, temporally distinct geological period (Cretaceous).
• Provides geospatial context for fossil tracks within a defined formation and location (Jiaguan Formation, Sichuan).

Limitations

• The dataset description is minimal, lacking details on columns, rows, and specific data structure.
• The reported file size is 0.0 B, which suggests metadata may be incomplete or the archive is empty, requiring manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

figshare, author Lida Xing.

Time Range

Cretaceous period.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-29 07:42:48.

Geography

Bajiedong tracksite, Jiaguan Formation, Sichuan, Southwest China.