Where: Colfax County, New Mexico (36.5° N, 104.1° W: paleocoordinates 35.3° N, 62.8° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Mesa Rica Sandstone Formation (Dakota Group), Albian (113.0 - 100.5 Ma)

• tracks are in the middle of the 10 m thick unit

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression, trace

Reposited in the NMMNH

Collection methods: mechanical,

• 20 tracks, NMMNH P-31622 and P-31623 are casts from this site.

•Site discovered by Fred, Francis, and Donny Fernandez on their ranch.

Primary reference: S. G. Lucas, A. B. Heckert, and R. M. Sullivan. 2000. Cretaceous dinosaurs in New Mexico. In S. G. Lucas and A. B. Heckert (eds.), Dinosaurs of New Mexico. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 17:83-90 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 54143: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 23.09.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)