Upheaval Dome tracksite (Triassic to of the United States)

Also known as Canyonlands N.P.

Where: Utah (38.4° N, 109.9° W: paleocoordinates 14.8° N, 48.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Rock Point Formation (Chinle Group), Norian to Norian (228.0 - 201.3 Ma)

• top of bed just beneath the base of the Hite Member

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; brown, red siltstone and sandstone

• "reddish-brown siltstone intercalated with laminated/ripple-laminated sandstone"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: S. G. Lucas, A. P. Hunt, and M. G. Lockley. 1995. Dinosaur footprint from the Upper Triassic Rock Point Formation of the Chinle Group, Canyonlands National Park. In V. L. Santucci & L. McClelland (eds.), National Park Service Natural Resources Publication Office Technical Report NPS/NRPO/NRTR-95/16. National Park Service Paleontological Research Volume 1:58-59 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 61845: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 05.07.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Theropoda - Grallatoridae
Grallator sp. Hitchcock 1858 theropod