Shay Canyon tracksite (Triassic to of the United States)

Where: San Juan County, Utah (38.0° N, 109.5° W: paleocoordinates 14.3° N, 47.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• "Apachean"; tracks in the "Hite Bed" of the Church Rock Member (= Rock Point), 15 m below overlying Wingate Fm.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: trace

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: K. L. Conrad and M. G. Lockley. 1986. Late Triassic archosaur tracksites from the American southwest. In D. D. Gillette and M. G. Lockley (eds.), First International Symposium on Dinosaur Tracks and Traces, Abstracts with Program 13 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 83555: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 22.08.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Dicynodontia -
Pentasauropus sp. Ellenberger 1970 dicynodont
Reptilia
 Pseudosuchia - Chirotheriidae
Brachychirotherium thuringiacum1 Rühle von Lilienstern 1938 archosaur
 Phytosauria -
 Theropoda - Grallatoridae
"Anchisauripus sillimani" = Eubrontes sillimani1
"Anchisauripus sillimani" = Eubrontes sillimani1 Hitchcock 1843 theropod