Yocumtown tracksite (Triassic of the United States)

Where: York County, Pennsylvania (40.2° N, 76.8° W: paleocoordinates 14.2° N, 21.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Gettysburg Formation (Chatham Group), Late/Upper Triassic (237.0 - 201.4 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; red sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collected by J. C. Hayes in 1932

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ),

Primary reference: W. O. Hickok and B. Willard. 1933. Dinosaur foot tracks near Yocumtown, York County, Pennsylvania. Proceedings of the Pennsylvania Academy of Sciences 7:55-58 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 52494: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 09.08.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Theropoda - Grallatoridae
Grallator tenuis, "Anchisauripus sillimani" = Eubrontes sillimani
Grallator tenuis Hitchcock 1858 theropod
"Anchisauripus sillimani" = Eubrontes sillimani Hitchcock 1843 theropod