Sliddery Trackway Site near Cnoc Ghloine Ceabhair (Triassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (55.4° N, 5.3° W: paleocoordinates 17.8° N, 6.5° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Auchenhew Mudstone Formation (Mercia Mudstone Group), Ladinian (242.0 - 237.0 Ma)

• Updated using BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units to replace Auchenhew Beds.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: peritidal; lithified, gray, blue sandstone

• Arid conditions with some marine influence.
• Grey blue sandstone with patches of red oxidation.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: trace

Primary reference: N. D. L. Clark and H. Corrance. 2009. New discoveries of Isochirotherium herculis (Egerton 1838) and a reassessment of chirotheriid footprints from the Triassic of the Isle of Arran, Scotland. Scottish Journal of Geology 45:69-82 [A. McGowan/A. McGowan]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 181939: authorized by Alistair McGowan, entered by Alistair McGowan on 08.10.2016

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Pseudosuchia - Chirotheriidae
Isochirotherium herculis
Isochirotherium herculis Egerton 1839 archosaur
Trackway with 10 footprints