Turkey Creek tracksite (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Jefferson County, Colorado (39.7° N, 105.1° W: paleocoordinates 38.5° N, 62.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• Sequence 3, middle to upper part of the Muddy Formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithology not reported

• "Track-bearing strata of the middle to upper part of the Muddy Formaion evidently represent onlap of coastal deposits and backfilling of valleys during transgression."

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collected by J. Warme in 1985

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• discovered by John Warme

Primary reference: M. G. Lockley. 1987. Dinosaur footprints from the Dakota Group of eastern Colorado. The Mountain Geologist 24(4):107-122 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 55200: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 28.09.2005, edited by Matthew Carrano

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Iguanodontipodidae
"Caririchnium leonardii" = Hadrosauropodus leonardii2
"Caririchnium leonardii" = Hadrosauropodus leonardii2 Lockley 1987 ornithopod
trackways
 Theropoda - Ornithomimipodidae
Magnoavipes sp.1 Lee 1997 coelurosaur