Valley of the Buttes 4 (UCMP V82307): Sinemurian - Pliensbachian, Arizona
collected 1982
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Testudines
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Testudines indet.
Batsch 1788
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Reptilia
- Dinosauria
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Dinosauria indet.
Owen 1842
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Reptilia
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Scelidosaurus sp.
Owen 1859
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| UCMP 130056, scute | ||||||||||
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= Scelidosaurus harrisoni
Owen 1861
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Padian 1989 | |||||||||
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= Thyreophora indet.
Nopcsa 1915
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Norman et al. 2007 | |||||||||
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= Scelidosaurus arizonensis
Ulansky 2014
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Ulansky 2014 | |||||||||
| nomen dubium belonging to Thyreophora | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Arizona | County: | Coconino |
| Coordinates: | 35.7° North, 111.0° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 19.3° 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| Basis of coordinate: | unpublished field data | ||||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 |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | "cross stratification" sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Degree of concentration: | dispersed |
| 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: | 1982 |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Rock Head | ||
| Database number: | 51895 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano, R. Butler | Enterer: | M. Carrano, R. Butler |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2005-06-30 07:54:53 | Last modified: | 2020-12-22 12:55:01 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-06-30 07:54:53 |
| 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:
| 24998 | ETE | D. B. Norman, R. J. Butler, and S. C. R. Maidment. 2007. Reconsidering the status and affinities of the ornithischian dinosaur Tatisaurus oehleri Simmons, 1965. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 150:865-874 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 43930 | K. Padian. 1989. Presence of the dinosaur Scelidosaurus indicates Jurassic age for the Kayenta Formation (Glen Canyon Group, northern Arizona). Geology 17:438-441 [R. Butler/R. Butler/M. Carrano] | |
| 66469 | R. E. Ulansky. 2014. Evolyutsiya ctegozavrov (Dinosauria; Ornithischia) [Evolution of the stegosaurs (Dinosauria; Ornithischia)]. Dinologia 1-35 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |