Also known as DNM, Dinosaur National Monument
Where: Uintah County, Utah (40.4° N, 109.3° W: paleocoordinates 27.4° N, 46.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Navajo-Nugget Sandstone Formation (Glen Canyon Group), Pliensbachian to Pliensbachian (190.8 - 174.1 Ma)
• 4 levels; 10-35 m below Carmel Fm.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: eolian; sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression, trace
Collected by M. Lockley, K. Conrad, M. Paquette in 1992
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
Primary reference: M. G. Lockley. 2011. Theropod- and prosauropod-dominated ichnofaunas from the Navajo-Nugget Sandstone (Lower Jurassic) at Dinosaur National Monument: implications for prosauropod behaviour and ecology. In R. M. Sullivan, S. G. Lucas, & J. A. Spielmann (eds.), Fossil Record 3. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 53:316-320 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 195177: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 24.07.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Grallator sp. Hitchcock 1858 theropod | |
Otozoum sp. Hitchcock 1847 prosauropod |