Washington City Water Tank tracksite 1 (Jurassic of the United States)

Also known as 42Ws143T

Where: Washington County, Utah (37.2° N, 113.5° W: paleocoordinates 17.3° N, 52.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Springdale Sandstone Member (Kayenta Formation), Hettangian (201.3 - 199.3 Ma)

• 18.5 m below orange sandstone near top of Kayenta Fm.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; fine-grained, white, calcareous sandstone

• "a 10 cm (4 inch) thick, white, calcareous, fine-grained sandstone"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collected by R. McClure, N. Stephens, D. Gillette, M. Hayden, A. Hamblin in 1989

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: A. H. Hamblin, M. G. Lockley, and A. R. C. Milner. 2006. More reports of theropod dinosaur tracksites from the Kayenta Formation (Lower Jurassic), Washington County, Utah: implications for describing the Springdale megatracksite. 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 37:276-281 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 194553: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 21.06.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Theropoda - Grallatoridae
Eubrontes sp. Hitchcock 1845 theropod
? Grallator sp. Hitchcock 1858 theropod