Pipeline Road tracksite (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as DNM, Dinosaur National Monument

Where: Uintah County, Utah (40.5° N, 109.4° W: paleocoordinates 41.3° N, 70.9° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Naturita Formation, Cenomanian (100.5 - 93.9 Ma)

• uppermost 2 m of formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; fine-grained sandstone and siltstone

• "alternations of mm-thick fine rhythmic silt layers with sandstones about 10-20 cms thick. The footprints are preserved in current-ripple-laminated, fine-grained quartz sandstone capped by a very-fine silt layer"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collected by Anfinson

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: O. A. Anfinson and J. A. Maxson. 2004. A new ichnospecies of Aquatilavipes from the Albian-Cenomanian Dakota Formation of northeastern Utah. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 36(5):67 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 95693: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 23.04.2010

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Taxonomic list

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Aves
  - Koreanaornipodidae
Koreanaornis cf. hamanensis