Also known as Castlegate
Where: Carbon County, Utah (39.7° N, 110.9° W: paleocoordinates 47.4° N, 80.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Castlegate Formation (Mesaverde Group), Campanian (83.6 - 72.1 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; gray sandstone and coal
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast, trace
Collected by Ballard, Watts
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
Primary reference: W. Peterson. 1924. Dinosaur tracks in the roofs of coal mines: a strange phenomenon noted in Utah and Colorado. Natural History 24(3):388-391 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 71436: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 25.04.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Tyrannosauropus petersoni n. gen. n. sp.1
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