Uhangri Formation

Uhangri Formation
Stratigraphic range: Late Cretaceous
Type Geological formation
Location
Region Asia
Country  South Korea
Uhangri Formation
Hangul 우항리공룡화석자연사유적지
Hanja 牛項里恐龍化石自然史遺蹟地
Revised Romanization Uhangni gongnyong hwaseok jayeonsa yujeokji
McCune–Reischauer Uhangni kongnyong hwasŏk chayŏnsa yujŏkchi

The Uhangri Formation, located at the Uhangri Dinosaur Fossil Site, is a geological formation from which fossil pterosaur tracks have been recovered near Haenam-eup, Jeollanam-do, South Korea.

Uhangri Dinosaur Fossil Site

The Uhangri Dinosaur Fossil Site area was originally covered by ocean, uncovered when Lake Damsuho, and surrounding area, was created by the construction of the Geumho Tide project.

Lake Damsuho has cliffs that are 3–4 meters/10–13 feet high, stretching about 5 kilometers/3.1 miles, made up of sedimentary rock formed during the Cretaceous age. Embedded in the rock formations around the lake are fossilized footprints of dinosaurs, pterosaurs and water birds that lived in this area tens of millions of years ago.

No other place in the world has fossil footprints of all these different dinosaurs found in a single area. The footprints of a pterosaur discovered in this area is the largest in the world at a length of 20-35 centimeters/8-14 inches.[1]

Vertebrate paleofauna

Pterosaurs

Pterosaur remains from the Uhangri Formation are housed at the Dinosaur Tracks Museum, of the University of Colorado at Denver and Chonnam National University, Gwangju, South Korea.[2]

Pterosaurs of the Uhangri Formation
Taxa Presence Description Images

Ichnogenus:
    • Found at the Haenamichnus type locale.[2]

          Ichnogenus:
          • Found at the Haenamichnus type locale.[2]

          See also

          References

          1. ↑ "visitkorea". Retrieved 2013-03-19.
          2. 1 2 3 4 Lockley, M.; Harris, J.D.; and Mitchell, L. 2008. "A global overview of pterosaur ichnology: tracksite distribution in space and time." Zitteliana. B28. p. 187-198. ISSN 1612-4138.

          Coordinates: 34°35′20″N 126°26′22″E / 34.58878°N 126.4394966°E / 34.58878; 126.4394966


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