Cub Creek tracksite: Late/Upper Triassic, Utah

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
Tetrasauropus sp. Ellenberger 1970
or Chirotherium or Brachychirotherium?
Reptilia - Otozoidae
Pseudotetrasauropus sp. Ellenberger 1965
    = Evazoum sp. Nicosia and Loi 2003
Lockley et al. 2006
Reptilia - Grallatoridae
Grallator sp. Hitchcock 1858
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:15.7° 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]