Also known as Price River Coal Company mine
Where: Carbon County, Utah (39.7° N, 110.9° W: paleocoordinates 47.3° N, 80.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Blackhawk Formation (Mesaverde Group), Campanian (83.6 - 72.1 Ma)
• 3 horizons with tracks
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: mire or swamp; peat and siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast, trace
Collected by L. Parker & J. Balsley
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ),
• Thousands of footprints, 93 have been removed
Primary reference: L. R. Parker. 1983. The identity of coalified wood from coal mine roofs in the Upper Cretaceous Blackhawk Formation of Utah. Geological Society of America, Rocky Mountain Section, Abstracts with Programs 15(5):408 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 52856: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 24.08.2005, edited by Richard Butler and Matthew Carrano
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia3
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Taxodiaceae indet. Saporta 1865 |