Fig. 16 includes ornithopod footprints assigned to Caririchnium isp. and theropod footprints tentatively assigned to cf. Grallator. The ornithopod tracks are natural casts, clearest on Slab 1, and show a distinct quadripartite structure. Preservation grade is 1–2; footprint length is 23.5–31.2 cm (mean 27.3 cm), and length-to-width ratio is 1.2–1.5 (mean 1.4). They are highly symmetrical, with three clear rounded digit impressions and a sub-circular metatarsophalangeal region separated by a depression; claw impressions are absent, mesaxony is weak (0.24–0.38; mean 0.30), and the mean divarication angle between digits II and IV is 49°. The potential trackway SMG25-O2 has a pace length about 2.7 times the footprint length, a pace angulation of 111°, and inward rotation of about 15°. The theropod tracks are mostly isolated, with only one potential trackway, SMG25-T1, on Slab 1. Preservation grade is 1–2; footprints are small (8.5–20.4 cm) and generally slender, mostly complete tridactyl impressions with digit III longest and digit II shortest, V-shaped metatarsophalangeal regions, and faint claw impressions or digital pads in some tracks. SMG25-T1 comprises two footprints (mean length 19.9 cm, length-to-width ratio 1.9, mesaxony 0.54, mean divarication angle between digits II and IV 41°). Isolated footprint TI9 is the best preserved (length 9.8 cm, length-to-width ratio 2.1, mesaxony 0.72, divarication angle between digits II and IV 38°), with the metatarsophalangeal pad of digit IV aligned along the axis of digit III.
3D models related to the publication: New Cretaceous dinosaur track sites from the Jiaguan Formation, Sichuan Province, China: ichnotaxonomy and preservation
The present 3D dataset contains the 3D models analyzed in Xing et al. (in press), Newly discovered Cretaceous dinosaur track sites from the Jiaguan Formation, Sichuan Province, China: ichnotaxonomy and preservation. The dataset includes photogrammetric 3D models of the specimens shown in Figures 6–9 and 16–17 of the original article. These correspond to track-bearing slabs and selected footprints from the Hongyangoukou and Jinyuxi tracksites and the Shimiaogou 2025 tracksite in the Gulin area, Sichuan Province, China. The Hongyangoukou material comprises three reddish-brown siltstone slabs preserving at least 61 theropod tracks, including nine trackways (HYGK-T1 to HYGK-T9) and isolated footprints (HYGK-TI1 onward). The Jinyuxi material comprises one isolated theropod natural cast (JYX-TI5) assigned to cf. Eubrontes, associated with microbially induced sedimentary structures (MISS). The Shimiaogou 2025 material comprises two slabs preserving at least 25 dinosaur footprints, including ornithopod trackways SMG25-O1 and SMG25-O2, theropod trackway SMG25-T1, and isolated footprints; all occur as natural positive reliefs. The 3D surface models are provided in PLY format.