Where: Uintah County, Utah (40.5° N, 109.2° W: paleocoordinates 18.9° N, 48.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Nugget Sandstone Formation, Late/Upper Triassic to Late/Upper Triassic (237.0 - 174.7 Ma)

• three distinct beds; lower part of the Nugget Sandstone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: interdune; massive sandstone and green, silty claystone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression, trace

Collected by Engelmann, Chure, Britt in 2007–

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ),

Primary reference: B. B. Britt, D. J. Chure, G. F. Engelmann and J. D. Shumway. 2016. Rise of the erg—paleontology and paleoenvironments of the Triassic-Jurassic transition in northeastern Utah. Geology of the Intermountain West 3:1-32 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 183201: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 07.12.2016

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