Gold Spring 1 (UCMP V85013): Sinemurian - Pliensbachian, Arizona
collected 1985
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
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Scutellosaurus lawleri
Colbert 1981
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1 specimen | |||||||||
UCMP 170829 | ||||||||||
Kayentachelys sp.
Gaffney et al. 1987
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2 specimens | |||||||||
Tritylodontidae
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Tritylodontidae indet.
Cope 1884
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Arizona | County: | Coconino |
Coordinates: | 35.8° North, 111.1° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 19.4° North, 49.8° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | unpublished field data | ||||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Early/Lower Jurassic |
Key time interval: | Sinemurian - Pliensbachian | ||
Age range of interval: | 199.50000 - 184.20000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Geological group: | Glen Canyon | Formation: | Kayenta | Member: | Silty Facies |
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: third "blue" horizon below Lower Blue |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | blue siltstone |
Secondary lithology: | "shale" |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: "interbedded siltstones and shales" | |
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Disassociated major elements: | some |
Disassociated minor elements: | some |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Museum repositories: | UCMP | Collection dates: | 1985 |
Metadata
Also known as: | Gold Springs 1 | ||
Database number: | 51894 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2005-06-30 07:51:16 | Last modified: | 2021-08-19 15:13:10 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-06-30 07:51:16 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
12373. | J. M. Clark and D. E. Fastovsky. 1986. Vertebrate biostratigraphy of the Glen Canyon Group in northern Arizona. The Beginning of the Age of the Dinosaurs: Faunal change across the Triassic-Jurassic boundary, N. C. Fraser and H.-D. Sues (eds.), Cambridge University Press 285-301 [R. Whatley/R. Whatley/R. Whatley] |
Secondary references:
77736 | B. T. Breeden, T. J. Raven, R. J. Butler, T. B. Rowe, and S. C. R. Maidment. 2021. The anatomy and palaeobiology of the early armoured dinosaur Scutellosaurus lawleri (Ornithischia: Thyreophora) from the Kayenta Formation (Lower Jurassic) of Arizona. Royal Society Open Science 8(7):201676:1-43 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |