Where: Colorado (38.4° N, 105.3° W: paleocoordinates 37.4° N, 61.8° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Plainview Formation (Dakota Group), Early/Lower Albian to Early/Lower Albian (112.0 - 105.3 Ma)
• middle of formation; 10 m above conglomeratic beds of the Lytle Fm. and about 8 m below shales of the Glancairn Fm.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; bioturbated, brown sandstone and black, gray, silty sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast, trace
Collected by Altschuld
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
Primary reference: M. G. Lockley. 1987. Dinosaur footprints from the Dakota Group of eastern Colorado. The Mountain Geologist 24(4):107-122 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 66897: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 23.10.2006, edited by Steven Miller
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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