Where: Navajo County, Arizona (36.8° N, 110.6° W: paleocoordinates 23.9° N, 48.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Navajo Sandstone Formation (Glen Canyon Group), Pliensbachian to Pliensbachian (190.8 - 174.1 Ma)
• Navajo Sandstone forms uppermost part of Glen Canyon Group, and is Early Jurassic, but probably not older than Pliensbachian (Irmis 2005. A review of the vertebrate fauna of the Lower Jurassic Navajo Sandstone in Arizona. Mesa Southwest Museum Bulletin 11:55–71)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression, trace
Collected by A. White & L. Brady in 1959–1960
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
Primary reference: L. F. Brady. 1960. Dinosaur tracks from the Navajo and Windgate sandstones. Plateau 32(4):81-82 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 126608: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 10.04.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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