Cub Creek tracksite: Late/Upper Triassic, Utah
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
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Tetrasauropus sp.
Ellenberger 1970
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or Chirotherium or Brachychirotherium? | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Otozoidae
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Pseudotetrasauropus sp.
Ellenberger 1965
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= Evazoum sp.
Nicosia and Loi 2003
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Lockley et al. 2006 | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Grallatoridae
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Grallator sp.
Hitchcock 1858
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Reptilia
- Chirotheriidae
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Brachychirotherium sp.
Beurlen 1950
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Utah | County: | Uintah |
Coordinates: | 40.4° North, 109.3° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 15.7° North, 46.8° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Triassic | Epoch: | Late/Upper Triassic |
*Period: | Late/Upper Cretaceous - Late/Upper Cretaceous | *Epoch: | Senonian - Senonian |
*International age/stage: | Early/Lower Santonian - Late/Upper Maastrichtian | ||
Key time interval: | Late/Upper Triassic | ||
Age range of interval: | 237.00000 - 201.30000 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Nugget Sandstone | ||||
Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: 2 beds separated by 10 cm, plus 3 additional beds |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | wave ripples,"cross stratification",fine,medium sandstone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: "fine- to medium-grained, moderately well-sorted sandstone with small-scale cross-beds" | |
Environment: | fluvial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | trace |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Spatial orientation: | life position |
Preservation of anatomical detail: | poor |
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 |
Metadata
Also known as: | chirothere | ||
Database number: | 32300 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2003-06-19 13:25:52 | Last modified: | 2017-03-16 14:42:04 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2003-06-19 13:25:52 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
61886. | 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] |
Secondary references:
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] | |
65678 | M. G. Lockley, S. G. Lucas, and A. P. Hunt. 2006. Evazoum and the renaming of Northern Hemisphere “Pseudotetrasauropus”: implications for tetrapod ichnotaxonomy at the Triassic-Jurassic boundary. In J. D. Harris, S. G. Lucas, J. A. Spielmann, M. G. Lockley, A. R. C. Milner, J. I. Kirkland (eds.), The Triassic-Jurassic Terrestrial Transition. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 37:199-206 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/P. Wagner] |