tracksite, 3 miles south of Lander (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Fremont County, Wyoming (42.8° N, 108.7° W: paleocoordinates 43.4° N, 69.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Naturita Formation, Cenomanian (100.5 - 93.9 Ma)

• base of "upper heavy sandstone" member of Dakota Fm.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: trace

Collected by E. Branson & M. Mehl

Collection methods: quarrying, ,

Primary reference: E. B. Branson and M. G. Mehl. 1932. Footprint records from Cretaceous, Triassic, and Pennsylvanian. Bulletin of the Geological Society of America 42:284-285 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 46556: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 19.01.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia -
Dakotasaurus browni n. gen. n. sp.
Dakotasaurus browni n. gen. n. sp. Branson and Mehl 1932 ornithopod
UM 594 VP