Dinosaur National Monument tracksite 8 (Triassic of the United States)

Also known as UCD91-8, UCD Loc. 8, UCD 91-8

Where: Uintah County, Utah (40.5° N, 109.3° W: paleocoordinates 19.1° N, 48.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Navajo-Nugget Sandstone Formation (Glen Canyon Group), Rhaetian (208.5 - 201.3 Ma)

• 7 m above base

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: trace

Collected by M. Lockley, K. Conrad, M. Paquette in 1991–1992

Collection methods: surface (in situ), peel or thin section,

Primary reference: M. G. Lockley, K. L. Conrad, and M. Paquette. 1991. Distribution and significance of Mesozoic vertebrate trace fossils in Dinosaur National Monument. University of Wyoming National Park Service Research Center Annual Report 15(16):85-90 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 192941: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 27.04.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Theropoda - Grallatoridae
? Grallator sp. Hitchcock 1858 theropod
 Saurischia -
? Eosauropus sp. Lockley et al. 2006 sauropodomorph
 Pseudosuchia - Chirotheriidae
Brachychirotherium sp. Beurlen 1950 archosaur
DINO 15000