Red Gulch Dinosaur Tracksite, UW V-98066 (Jurassic of the United States)

Also known as RGDT

Where: Big Horn County, Wyoming (44.5° N, 107.8° W: paleocoordinates 36.6° N, 48.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Canyon Springs Member (Sundance Formation), Bathonian (168.3 - 166.1 Ma)

• from the J2b interval

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: peritidal; lithified, ooidal, gray limestone

• intertidal zone of a beach
• "gray, ripple-bedded, oolitic, peritidal limestone"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, trace

Reposited in the UW

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: N. A. Matthews, B. H. Breithaupt, and E. H. Southwell. 2000. Photogrammetric documentation of a Middle Jurassic dinosaur tracksite in the Sundance Formation of the Bighorn Basin of Wyoming. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 20(3 (suppl.)):57A [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 56133: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 11.11.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
  -
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
resting traces
Reptilia
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet. theropod
trackways, > 1000 tracks
 Ichnofossils -
Skolithos sp. Haldemann 1840
or Arenicolites sp.
Rhizocorallium sp. Zenker 1836
Diplocraterion sp. Torell 1870