Also known as Bear Lake
Where: Bear Lake County, Idaho (42.1° N, 111.3° W: paleocoordinates 29.3° N, 47.9° 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)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: eolian; sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression, trace
Collected by G. Loertscher, A. Tedrow in 2005–2008, 2010
Collection methods: quarrying,
Primary reference: M. G. Lockley, A. R. Tedrow, K. C. Chamberlain, N. J. Minter, and J.-D. Lim. 2011. Footprints and invertebrate traces from a new site in the Nugget Sandstone (Lower Jurassic) of Idaho: implications for life in the northern reaches of the great Navajo-Nuggest erg system in the western USA. In R. M. Sullivan, S. G. Lucas, & J. A. Spielmann (eds.), Fossil Record 3. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 53:344-356 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 195189: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 25.07.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Grallator sp. Hitchcock 1858 theropod | |
Otozoum sp. Hitchcock 1847 prosauropod | |
Batrachopus sp. Hitchcock 1845 aetosaur | |
Osteichthyes | |
Brasilichnium sp. Leonardi 1981 synapsid including morphological variants Bipedopus and Semibipedopus
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