Where: Wyoming (42.6° N, 108.2° W: paleocoordinates 4.3° N, 35.2° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• hand sample-level geographic resolution
When: Tensleep Formation, Pennsylvanian (323.2 - 298.9 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: trace
Collected by Donald Bell, N. H. Brown (with University of Missouri field group) in 1929
• University of Missouri
Primary reference: E. B. Branson and M. G. Mehl. 1932. Footprints records from the Paleozoic and Mesozoic of Missouri, Kansas, and Wyoming. Bulletin of the Geological Society of America 43:383-398 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 197983: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 05.12.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Steganoposaurus belli n. gen. n. sp.
Steganoposaurus belli n. gen. n. sp. Branson and Mehl 1932 tetrapod 595 V. P. (holotype), "a slab marked by a consecutive series of 24 prints of right and left hind feet and a few indifferently preserved prints of the forefeet"
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