Cub Creek tracksite (Triassic of the United States)

Also known as chirothere

Where: Uintah County, Utah (40.4° N, 109.3° W: paleocoordinates 15.7° N, 46.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Nugget Sandstone Formation, Late/Upper Triassic (237.0 - 201.4 Ma)

• 2 beds separated by 10 cm, plus 3 additional beds

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; fine-grained, medium sandstone

• "fine- to medium-grained, moderately well-sorted sandstone with small-scale cross-beds"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: trace

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: M. G. Lockley and A. P. Hunt. 1995. Dinosaur Tracks and Other Fossil Footprints of the Western United States xxi-338 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 32300: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 19.06.2003

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Theropoda - Grallatoridae
Grallator sp.
Grallator sp. Hitchcock 1858 theropod
 Saurischia - Otozoidae
Evazoum sp.
Evazoum sp. Nicosia and Loi 2003 prosauropod
 Saurischia -
Tetrasauropus sp.
Tetrasauropus sp. Ellenberger 1970 prosauropod
or Chirotherium or Brachychirotherium?
 Pseudosuchia - Chirotheriidae
Brachychirotherium sp.
Brachychirotherium sp. Beurlen 1950 archosaur