Cherryvale tracksite (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as Marshall

Where: Boulder County, Colorado (40.0° N, 105.2° W: paleocoordinates 46.8° N, 80.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Laramie Formation, Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)

• lower Laramie Fm.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; fine-grained, ferruginous, brown sandstone

• "sandstone–brown, iron-stained, fine-grained. Often contains ripple marks

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression, trace

Collected in 2018

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: M. G. Lockley, B. Simmons, and S. E. Hirschfeld. 2018. A new dinosaur track locality in the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Laramie Formation of Colorado. In S. G. Lucas & R. M. Sullivan (ed.), Fossil Record 6. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 79:395-406 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 231021: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 31.07.2023

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Theropoda -
Saurexallopus sp.
Saurexallopus sp. Harris 1997 maniraptoran
nos. T1–T18
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
Hadrosauridae indet.
Hadrosauridae indet. Cope 1869 hadrosaurid
nos 1-5
 Ornithischia - Iguanodontipodidae
Hadrosauropodus sp.
Hadrosauropodus sp. Lockley et al. 2003 ornithopod
nos. 6, 7
 Testudinata -
Testudinata indet.
Testudinata indet. Oppel 1811 turtle
swim traces, UCM 229.31 and UCM. 229.32