Also known as Tucker Ranch
Where: Las Animas County, Colorado (37.0° N, 103.0° W: paleocoordinates 11.8° N, 42.4° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Sheep Pen Sandstone Formation (Chinle Group), Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; burrowed sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression, trace
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
Primary reference: K. L. Conrad, M. G. Lockley, and N. K. Prince. 1987. Triassic and Jurassic vertebrate-dominated trace fossil assemblages of the Cimarron Valley region: implications for paleoeology and biostratigraphy. In S. G. Lucas & A. P. Hunt (ed.), New Mexico Geological Society 38th Annual Fall Field Conference, Northeastern New Mexico. New Mexico Geological Society Guidebook 38:127-138 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 84185: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 23.09.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Grallator cursorius Hitchcock 1858 theropod | |
? Brachychirotherium sp. Beurlen 1950 archosaur | |
Scoyenia cf. gracilis White 1929 |