Sylvan Grove tracksite (Cretaceous to of the United States)

Where: Lincoln County, Kansas (39.0° N, 98.4° W: paleocoordinates 36.3° N, 59.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Dakota Formation, Late/Upper Albian to Late/Upper Albian (105.3 - 93.9 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collected by C. Brandhorst, C. Hibbard, W. Long in 1933

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ),

Primary reference: J. McAllister. 1986. Reassessment of reptile trackways from the Dakota Formation of Kansas. In D. D. Gillette (ed.), First International Symposium on Dinosaur Tracks and Traces, Abstracts with Program 19-20 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 49041: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 06.04.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Crocodylia -
Crocodylia indet. crocodilian
Lane (1946) identification; 80 individual tracks