Devil's Kitchen tracksite (NMMNH L-6762) (Triassic of the United States)

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
 Theropoda - Grallatoridae
? Grallator sp. Hitchcock 1858 theropod
 Pseudosuchia - Chirotheriidae
Brachychirotherium sp. Beurlen 1950 archosaur