Chew Road tracksites (DNM) (Jurassic of the United States)

Also known as Chew Ranch

Where: Uintah County, Utah (40.4° N, 109.2° W: paleocoordinates 32.1° N, 50.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Carmel Formation (San Rafael Group), Bajocian (170.3 - 168.3 Ma)

• near top of formation

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; lithified sandstone and brown, green, white limestone

• "resistant, flaggy sandstone beds"; "white to greenish or brownish limestone beds...very small to very large ripple marks and mud cracks."

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, trace

Collected by Untermannl; Lockley in 1950s; 1990

Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ), peel or thin section,

Primary reference: G. E. Untermann and B. R. Untermann. 1954. Geology of Dinosaur National Monument and vicinity, Utah-Colorado. Utah Geological and Mineralogical Survey Bulletin 42:1-221 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 123299: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 18.01.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Reptilia
 Dinosauria -
Dinosauria indet. Owen 1842 dinosaur
"3- and 4-toed dinosauroid tracks"
 Theropoda -
Carmelopodus untermannorum n. gen. n. sp. Lockley et al. 1998 theropod
CU-MWC 184.11-184.21; UFHNH 88.20.1-5