Burton Quarry tracks (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Pennington County, South Dakota (44.1° N, 103.2° W: paleocoordinates 42.2° N, 52.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lakota Formation, Barremian (129.4 - 125.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; coarse-grained sandstone

• "The sandstone is rather coarse grained"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: trace

Collected by S. Anderson in 1912; reposited in the SDSM

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

Primary reference: C. C. O'Harra. 1917. Fossil footprints in the Black Hills. Pahasapa Quarterly 6(4):20-24 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 59376: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 29.03.2006, edited by Matthew Carrano

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet.1 theropod
footprint
 Ornithischia -
Ornithopoda indet.2 ornithopod
footrpints; tridactyl