Bendrick Rock tracksite, Barry (Triassic of the United Kingdom)

Also known as Bendricks Rock, South Glamorgan

Where: Wales, United Kingdom (51.4° N, 3.3° W: paleocoordinates 31.1° N, 0.6° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Mercia Mudstone Group, Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)

• at least 8 track-bearing levels

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: alluvial fan; sandstone and marl

• "fluvial sandstones and silstones, and shore-zone lacustrine sediments"; site is in sheet flood deposits associated with alluvial fan margins. Interpreted as a "desert piedmont" environment.
• The bed with the best prints is a "graded sandstone with ripple marks, overlain by a marl parting"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collected by M. Tucker, T. Burchette, S. England, C. Jones in 1974, 1989–1990

Collection methods: bulk, quarrying, surface (in situ), mechanical,

• Over 450 footprints have been observed; discovered by students from University College, Cardiff

Primary reference: M. E. Tucker and T. P. Burchette. 1977. Triassic dinosaur footprints from South Wales: their context and preservation. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 22:195-208 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 57949: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 11.01.2006, edited by Matthew Carrano

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Saurischia -
? Eosauropus sp.3, Eosauropus sp.3, Pseudotetrasauropus sp.4
? Eosauropus sp.3 Lockley et al. 2006 sauropodomorph
CU 169.3
Eosauropus sp.3 Lockley et al. 2006 sauropodomorph
Pseudotetrasauropus sp.4 Ellenberger 1965 prosauropod
 Theropoda - Grallatoridae
"Gigandipus sp." = Eubrontes1, cf. Anchisauripus sp.2, Grallator sp.2
"Gigandipus sp." = Eubrontes1 Hitchcock 1845 theropod
cf. Anchisauripus sp.2 Lull 1904 theropod
Grallator sp.2 Hitchcock 1858 theropod
"compensated gait"
1Benton and Spencer 1995; 2Lockley et al. 1996; 3Lockley et al. 2006; 4Lockley and Meyer 2000