Roughlock Hill track locality: Spathian, Wyoming
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
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Rhynchosauroides sp.
Maidwell 1911
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Reptilia
- Chirotheriidae
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Chirotherium barthii
Kaup 1835
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Wyoming | County: | Natrona |
| Coordinates: | 43.4° North, 106.9° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 11.2° North, 31.9° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||||
| Altitude: | 1850 meters | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Triassic | Epoch: | Early/Lower Triassic |
| Stage: | Olenekian | 10 m.y. bin: | Triassic 1 |
| Key time interval: | Spathian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 248.90000 - 247.20000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Chugwater | Formation: | Red Peak | Member: | Upper platy facies |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Upper platy facies of the Red Peak Formation, close to upper transition with sandy facies | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | desiccation cracks,burrows,very fine sandstone |
| Secondary lithology: | planar lamination silty mudstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | fluvial indet. |
| Geology comments: "The majority of the ichnoassemblage is associated with fluvial, crevasse-splay, and floodplain deposits" | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | trace |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Spatial orientation: | life position |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
| Spatial resolution: | autochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 135634 | ||
| Authorizer: | R. Butler | Enterer: | R. Butler |
| Modifier: | R. Butler | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2012-10-29 19:18:35 | Last modified: | 2012-10-29 03:50:46 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2012-10-29 19:18:35 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 43377. | D. M. Lovelace and S. D. Lovelace. 2012. Paleoenvironments and paleoecology of a Lower Triassic invertebrate and vertebrate ichnoassemblage from the Red Peak Formation (Chugwater Group), central Wyoming. Palaios 27:636-657 [R. Butler/R. Butler] |