Cactus Park tracksite (Wingate Fm.) (Jurassic of the United States)

Where: Mesa County, Colorado (38.9° N, 108.5° W: paleocoordinates 18.6° N, 48.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Wingate Sandstone Formation (Glen Canyon Group), Hettangian (201.3 - 199.3 Ma)

• top of formation near contact with Kayenta

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: A. P. Hunt, M. G. Lockley, K. Hups and R. J. Schultze. 1995. Jurassic vertebrate paleontology of Cactus Park, west-central Colorado. Geological Society of America Abstracts-with-Programs 27(4):15 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 183639: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 10.01.2017

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Theropoda - Grallatoridae
Grallator sp. Hitchcock 1858 theropod
Eubrontes sp. Hitchcock 1845 theropod