Weyerhaeuser Briar Plant Quarry, TMM 43041 [De Queen]: Early/Lower Albian, Arkansas
collected by J. Pittman & D. Gillette 1983

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
Sauropoda indet. Marsh 1878
    = Pleurocoelus sp. Marsh 1888
Pittman and Gillette 1986
    = Brontopodus birdi Farlow et al. 1989
Farlow et al. 1989
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Douvilleiceratidae
Douvilleiceras sp. Grossouvre 1894
Pittman and Gillette 1989
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Corbiculidae
Corbicula arkansensis
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Anomiidae
Anomia texana
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Arkansas County:Howard
Coordinates: 34.1° North, 93.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:30.8° North, 51.4° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Altitude:157 meters
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Early/Lower Cretaceous
Stage:Albian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 4
Key time interval:Early/Lower Albian
Age range of interval:113.00000 - 109.90000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:De Queen
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: 2 layers in middle of formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:lenticular,desiccation cracks,wave ripples,burrows,bioturbation,gray lithified sandy wackestone
Secondary lithology:bioturbation,shelly/skeletal,gray lithified wackestone
Includes fossils?Y
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Light gray arenaceous wackestone and packstone; lenticular bedding; mudcracks; salt hoppers; wave ripples; verticle burrows; grazing traces of gastropods. Light gray wackstone; shell debris abundant; very biotrubated.
Environment:coastal indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:cast,trace
Degree of concentration:-multiple events
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Spatial orientation:life position
Abundance in sediment:abundant
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Spatial resolution:autochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:all macrofossils
Collection methods:selective quarrying,surface (in situ),mechanical,peel or thin section,field collection,observed (not collected)
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Museum repositories:TMM
Collectors:J. Pittman & D. Gillette Collection dates:1983
Collection method comments: trackways destroyed by blasting, November 1983
Metadata
Also known as:Nashville tracksite
Database number:52179
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:K. Maguire, M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:marine invertebrate,vertebrate
Created:2005-07-29 12:21:07 Last modified:2022-10-24 12:52:01
Access level:the public Released:2005-07-29 12:21:07
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
37146. J. G. Pittman. 1984. Geology of the De Queen Formation of Arkansas. Transactions of the Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies 34:201-209 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/P. Wagner]

Secondary references:

70606 A. K. Braden. 2007. The Arkansas dinosaur: “Arkansaurus fridayi”. Arkansas Geology Education Series, Brochure 7:1-6 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
55940 N. E. Elliott, D. D. Gillette, and J. G. Pittman. 1986. Image processing of aerial trackway photographs. In D. D. Gillette and M. G. Lockley (eds.), First International Symposium on Dinosaur Tracks and Traces, Abstracts with Program 14 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
69370 J. O. Farlow. 1987. A Guide to Lower Cretaceous Footprints and Tracksites of the Paluxy River Valley, Somervell County, Texas. South-Central Geological Society of America Guidebook 50-A-20 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
82180 J. O. Farlow. 1992. Sauropod tracks and trackmakers: integrating the ichnological and skeletal records. Zubía 10:89-138 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
14222ETE J. O. Farlow, J. G. Pittman, and J. M. Hawthorne. 1989. Brontopodus birdi, Lower Cretaceous dinosaur footprints from the U.S. Gulf Coastal Plain. In D. D. Gillette and M. G. Lockley (eds.), Dinosaur Tracks and Traces. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 371-394 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
24898ETE D. D. Gillette. 1985. Herding behavior and species diversity in Cretaceous sauropods of the American southwest. Geological Society of America, Rocky Mountain Section, Abstracts with Programs 17(4):220 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
63566 M. G. Lockley. 1986. A Guide to Dinosaur Tracksites of the Colorado Plateau and American Southwest. University of Colorado at Denver Geology Department Magazine, Special Issue 1:1-56 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
82919 M. G. Lockley. 1992. La dinoturbaciion y el fenomeno de la alteración del sedimento por pisadas de vertebrados en ambientes antiguos []. In J. L. Sanz & A. D. Buscalioni (ed.), Los Dinosaurios y Su Entorno Biotico: Actas del Segundo Curso de Paleontologia in Cuenca 269-296 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
65420 M. G. Lockley, K. J. Houck, and N. K. Prince. 1986. North America's largest dinosaur trackway site: implications for Morrison Formation paleoecology. Geological Society America Bulletin 97:1163-1176 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
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]
76343 C. A. Meyer, D. Marty, and M. Belvedere. 2018. Titanosaur trackways from the Late Cretaceous El Molino Formation of Bolivia (Cal Orck’o, Sucre). Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae 88:223-241 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
14010ETE J. G. Pittman. 1989. Stratigraphy, lithology, depositional environment, and track type of dinosaur track-bearing beds of the Gulf Coastal Plain. In D. D. Gillette and M. G. Lockley (eds.), Dinosaur Tracks and Traces. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 135-153 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/M. Carrano]
78850 J. G. Pittman and G. L. Bell. 2002. Cretaceous vertebrates of SE Oklahoma, SW Arkansas and NE Texas. In J. G. Pittman, G. L. Bell, R. L. Cifelli, & W. Langston (eds.), Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, 62nd Annual Meeting. Field Trip Guidebook. Field Trip 2. Cretaceous of Southeast Oklahoma, Southwest Arkansas and Northeast Texas. Oklahoma Geological Survey Open-File Report 10-2002:15-31 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
64824 J. G. Pittman and D. D. Gillette. 1984. Tracking the Arkansas dinosaurs. The Arkansas Naturalist 2(3):1-12 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
55916 J. G. Pittman and D. D. Gillette. 1986. A new sauropod dinosaur trackway in the Lower Cretaceous of Arkansas. In D. D. Gillette (ed.), First International Symposium on Dinosaur Tracks and Traces. Abstracts with Program 23 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
14027ETE J. G. Pittman and D. D. Gillette. 1989. The Briar site: a new sauropod dinosaur tracksite in Lower Cretaceous beds of Arkansas, USA. In D. D. Gillette and M. G. Lockley (eds.), Dinosaur Tracks and Traces. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 313-332 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/M. Carrano]
17865ETE J. G. Pittman and M. G. Lockley. 1995. A review of sauropod dinosaur tracksites of the Gulf of Mexico basin. In M. G. Lockley, V. F. dos Santos, C. A. Meyer, & A. P. Hunt (eds.), Aspects of Sauropod Paleobiology. GAIA 10:95-108 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
81571 S. F. Poropat, M. A. White, T. Ziegler, A. H. Pentland, S. L. Rigby, R. J. Duncan, T. Sloan and D. A. Elliot. 2021. A diverse Late Cretaceous vertebrate tracksite from the Winton Formation of Queensland, Australia. PeerJ 9:e11544:1-87 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
55488 M. Romano, M. A. Whyte, and S. J. Jackson. 2007. Trackway ratio: A new look at trackway gauge in the analysis of quadrupedal dinosaur trackways and its implications for ichnotaxonomy. Ichnos 14(3–4):257-270 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]