Where: Natrona County, Wyoming (42.5° N, 106.7° W: paleocoordinates 36.8° N, 50.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Windy Hill Sandstone Member (Sundance Formation), Oxfordian (163.5 - 157.3 Ma)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: foreshore; glauconitic, ooidal, sandy limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression, trace
Collected by T. Nickerson, T. Logue in 1976
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
Primary reference: M. Lockley, T. J. Logue, J. J. Moratalla, A. P. Hunt, R. J. Schultz and J. W. Robinson. 1995. The fossil trackway Pteraichnus is pterosaurian, not crocodilian: implications for the global distribution of pterosaur tracks. Ichnos 4:7-20 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 92104: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 30.10.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Pteraichnus sp., Pteraichnus stokesi n. sp.
Pteraichnus sp. Stokes 1957 pterosaur
Pteraichnus stokesi n. sp. Lockley et al. 1995 pterosaur UW 12368, trackway. UW 12363-67, 12399-12372
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