Flag Point I tracksite, GS-ENM (Jurassic to of the United States)

Where: Kane County, Utah (37.1° N, 112.3° W: paleocoordinates 20.8° N, 50.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Kayenta Formation (Glen Canyon Group), Sinemurian to Sinemurian (199.3 - 182.7 Ma)

• near top of Kayenta Fm.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; yellow, calcareous sandstone

• "a resistant cream-colored limy shale that is overlain by friable purple shale" (Stokes and Bruhn 1960). Layer is actually a calcareous sandstone.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: trace

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• Over 100 footprints, mostly Eubrontes. Originally observed by indigenous Native Americans, as a track image is depicted on a nearby rock art pictograph.

Primary reference: W. L. Stokes and A. F. Bruhn. 1960. Dinosaur tracks from Zion National Park and Vicinity, Utah. Utah Academy Proceedings 37:75-76 [M. Carrano/M. Oreska]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 57067: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 01.12.2005, edited by Matthew Oreska and Matthew Carrano

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Theropoda - Grallatoridae
Eubrontes sp.1, Eubrontes sp.2
Eubrontes sp.1 Hitchcock 1845 theropod
Eubrontes sp.2 Hitchcock 1845 theropod
 Theropoda -
Kayentapus cf. soltykovensis2
Kayentapus cf. soltykovensis2 Gierlinski 1991 theropod
1Hamblin and Foster 2001; 2Lockley et al. 2006