Also known as NMMNH Loc. 6762, Colorado National Monument
Where: Colorado (39.0° N, 108.6° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 13.6° N, 37.5° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Wingate Sandstone Formation (Glen Canyon Group), Rhaetian (208.5 - 201.3 Ma)
• 3 m above base
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: interdune; sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast, mold/impression, trace
Collected by NPS
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
Primary reference: S. G. Lucas, M. G. Lockley, A. P. Hunt and L. H. Tanner. 2006. Biostratigraphic significance of tetrapod footprints from the Triassic-Jurassic Wingate Sandstone on the Colorado Plateau. In J. D. Harris, S. G. Lucas, J. A. Spielmann, M. G. Lockley, A. R. C. Milner, & J. I. Kirkland (eds.), The Triassic-Jurassic Terrestrial Transition. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 37:109-117 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 192942: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 27.04.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
? Grallator sp. Hitchcock 1858 theropod | |
Brachychirotherium sp. Beurlen 1950 archosaur |