Bourdette Draw tracsite: Late/Upper Triassic, Utah
collected by M. Lockley & A. Hunt

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Chirotheriidae
Brachychirotherium sp. Beurlen 1950
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Utah County:Uintah
Coordinates: 40.4° North, 109.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:15.6° North, 46.9° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Triassic Epoch:Late/Upper Triassic
10 m.y. bin:Triassic 3-4
Key time interval:Late/Upper Triassic
Age range of interval:237.00000 - 201.40000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Nugget Sandstone
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: base of formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: sandstone
Environment:fluvial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:trace
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Spatial orientation:life position
Associated major elements:some
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Spatial resolution:autochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),observed (not collected)
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collectors:M. Lockley & A. Hunt
Metadata
Database number:184625
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2017-03-14 16:47:37 Last modified:2017-03-14 16:47:37
Access level:the public Released:2017-03-14 16:47:37
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
61868. B. B. Britt, D. J. Chure, G. F. Engelmann and J. D. Shumway. 2016. Rise of the erg—paleontology and paleoenvironments of the Triassic-Jurassic transition in northeastern Utah. Geology of the Intermountain West 3:1-32 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]