Clear Creek North tracksite (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as Starkville

Where: Las Animas County, Colorado (37.1° N, 104.5° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 48.1° N, 69.6° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Raton Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• 1-2 m below K/T boundary

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: trace

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: C. L. Pillmore, M. G. Lockley, R. F. Fleming and K. R. Johnson. 1994. Footprints in the rocks--new evidence from the Raton Basin that dinosaurs flourished on land until the terminal Cretaceous impact event . Papers Presented to New Developments the KT Event and Other Catastrophes in Earth History. LPI Contribution 825:89-90 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 219683: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 16.04.2021

Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Ceratopsidae
Ceratopsidae indet. Marsh 1888 ceratopsid
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
Hadrosauridae indet. Cope 1869 hadrosaurid