Where: Arizona/Utah (37.0° N, 112.0° W: paleocoordinates 24.3° N, 49.5° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Navajo Sandstone Formation (Glen Canyon Group), Pliensbachian to Pliensbachian (190.8 - 174.1 Ma)
• Navajo Sandstone forms uppermost part of Glen Canyon Group, and is Early Jurassic, but probably not older than Pliensbachian (Irmis 2005. A review of the vertebrate fauna of the Lower Jurassic Navajo Sandstone in Arizona. Mesa Southwest Museum Bulletin 11:55–71)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: dune; sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression, trace
Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),
Primary reference: D. B. Loope. 2006. Dry-season tracks in dinosaur-triggered grainflows. Palaios 21:132-142 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 60455: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 15.05.2006, edited by Matthew Carrano
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
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Grallator sp. Hitchcock 1858 theropod | |
Otozoum sp. Hitchcock 1847 prosauropod | |
Navahopus coyoteensis n. sp.
Navahopus coyoteensis n. sp. Milàn et al. 2008 sauropodomorph |