Moenkopi Wash tracksite, UCMP V6898 (Jurassic to of the United States)

Also known as Three Wise Men, MNA 197, Site 2

Where: Coconino County, Arizona (36.1° N, 111.2° W: paleocoordinates 19.7° N, 49.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Kayenta Formation (Glen Canyon Group), Sinemurian to Sinemurian (199.3 - 182.7 Ma)

• high in formation, ca. 345 ft above Dilophosauripus tracksite level

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; gray, sandy, calcareous mudstone

• "lens of gray limey sandy mudstone"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collected by S. Welles

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

Primary reference: M. F. Farmer. 1954. Tracks and trackways of northern Arizona—a record of the past. Plateau 28(3):54-66 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 126606: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 10.04.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Moyenisauropodidae
"Hopiichnus shingi n. gen. n. sp." = Anomoepus shingi
"Hopiichnus shingi n. gen. n. sp." = Anomoepus shingi Welles 1971 ornithopod
UCMP 83760
 Theropoda -
Kayentapus hopii n. gen. n. sp.
Kayentapus hopii n. gen. n. sp. Welles 1971 theropod
UCMP 83668, 83669