Dirty Devil River Valley tracksite (Chinle) (Triassic to of the United States)

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
 Theropoda - Grallatoridae
Grallator cursorius Hitchcock 1858 theropod