Where: Wayne County, Utah (38.2° N, 110.4° W: paleocoordinates 14.6° N, 48.5° 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"; uppermost part of formation
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone and siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast, trace
Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ), peel or thin section,
Primary reference: M. G. Lockley and L. Eisenberg. 2006. A preliminary report on a speectacular dinosaur tracksite in the Chinle Group, Dirty Devil River Valley, Wayne County, Utah. In J. D. Harris, S. G. Lucas, J. A. Spielmann, M. G. Lockley, A. R. C. Milner, J. I. Kirkland (eds.), The Triassic-Jurassic Terrestrial Transition. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 37:263-268 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 83556: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 22.08.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Grallator cursorius Hitchcock 1858 theropod |