Furnish Canyon tracksite (Triassic of the United States)

Where: Las Animas County, Colorado (37.0° N, 103.0° W: paleocoordinates 11.8° N, 42.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Sloan Canyon Formation (Chinle Group), Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)

• "Apachean"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: trace

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: M. G. Lockley, S. G. Lucas, and A. P. Hunt. 2006. Eosauropus, a new name for a Late Triassic track: further observations on the Late Triassic ichnogenus Tetrasauropus and related forms, with notes on the limits of interpretation. 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 37:192-198 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 84184: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 23.09.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Saurischia -
Eosauropus cimarronensis Lockley et al. 2006 sauropodomorph