Sylvan Grove tracksite: Late Albian - Cenomanian, Kansas
collected by C. Brandhorst, C. Hibbard, W. Long 1933
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
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| Liggett 2005 | 7 individuals | |||||||||
| Lane (1946) identification; 80 individual tracks | ||||||||||
| McAllister 1986 | ||||||||||
| McAllister 1989 | ||||||||||
| or possibly ankylosaur | ||||||||||
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= Crocodylia indet.
Owen 1842
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Lockley et al. 2006 | |||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Kansas | County: | Lincoln |
| Coordinates: | 39.0° North, 98.4° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 44.5° North, 54.4° West (Wright 2013) | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Altitude: | 1445 meters | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Early Cretaceous - Late Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Albian - Cenomanian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 4 - Cretaceous 5 |
| Key time interval: | Late Albian - Cenomanian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 106.3 - 93.9 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Dakota |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | fluvial-lacustrine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | mold/impression,trace |
| Degree of concentration: | concentrated |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Spatial orientation: | life position |
| Associated major elements: | some |
| Disassociated major elements: | some |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
| Spatial resolution: | autochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,surface (in situ),field collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis | ||
| Collectors: | C. Brandhorst, C. Hibbard, W. Long | Collection dates: | 1933 |
Metadata
| Database number: | 49041 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | G. Varnham | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2005-04-06 07:41:32 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-04-06 07:41:32 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 55925. | J. McAllister. 1986. Reassessment of reptile trackways from the Dakota Formation of Kansas. In D. D. Gillette (ed.), First International Symposium on Dinosaur Tracks and Traces, Abstracts with Program 19-20 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 13083 | ETE | G. A. Liggett. 2005. A review of the dinosaurs from Kansas. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 108(1/2):1-14 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 63566 | M. G. Lockley. 1986. A Guide to Dinosaur Tracksites of the Colorado Plateau and American Southwest. University of Colorado at Denver Geology Department Magazine, Special Issue 1:1-56 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 25992 | ETE | M. G. Lockley, J. Holbrook, R. Kukihara and M. Matsukawa. 2006. An ankylosaur-dominated dinosaur tracksite in the Cretaceous Dakota Group of Colorado: paleoenvironmental and sequence stratigraphic context. In S. G. Lucas and R. M. Sullivan (eds.), Late Cretaceous Vertebrates from the Western Interior. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 35:95-104 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 13086 | ETE | J. A. McAllister. 1989. Dakota Formation tracks from Kansas: implications for the recognition of tetrapod subaqueous traces. D. D. Gillette and M. G. Lockley (eds.), Dinosaur Tracks and Traces, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 343-348 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |