Bodily Quarry, Little Valley (BYU): Aptian, Utah
collected by L. Ottinger & J. A. Jensen 1965-1968

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Plantae indet. Haeckel 1866
"fossil wood"
Reptilia - Polacanthidae
? Hoplitosaurus sp. Lucas 1902
1 individual
BYU-R245
    = Sauropelta sp. Ostrom 1970
Coombs 1978
    = Polacanthus sp. Fox 1866
Pereda-Suberbiola 1994
    = cf. Sauropelta sp. Ostrom 1970
Carpenter et al. 1999
    = Polacanthidae indet. Wieland 1911
Kirkland et al. 2013
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Utah County:Grand
Coordinates: 38.8° North, 109.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:39.2° North, 61.0° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Altitude:1426 meters
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Early/Lower Cretaceous
Stage:Aptian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 3
Key time interval:Aptian
Age range of interval:125.00000 - 113.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Dakota Formation:Cedar Mountain Member:Poison Strip Sandstone
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Ludvigson et al. 2010: U-Pb dates from near the base were approximately 119.4 +/- 2.6Ma
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray,green sandy "shale"
Secondary lithology:lenticular,brown sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: fossil found "in light gray shales between the sandstone lenses...the fossil material was surrounded by slightly sandy, light gray to green shale." The sandstone is "even bedded and light brown."
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Degree of concentration:dispersed
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:medium
Associated major elements:all
Fragmentation:occasional
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,surface (float),surface (in situ),mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:L. Ottinger & J. A. Jensen Collection dates:1965-1968
Collection method comments: discovered by Lin Ottinger (Moab) and initially collected by J. A. Jensen
Metadata
Also known as:State of Utah Loc. 42Gr003VP
Database number:49615
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-04-20 13:40:10 Last modified:2023-08-21 15:11:19
Access level:the public Released:2005-04-20 13:40:10
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

19182.ETE N. M. Bodily. 1970. An armored dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of Utah. Brigham Young University Geology Studies 16(3):35-60 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

12199ETE K. Carpenter, J. I. Kirkland, D. Burge and J. Bird. 1999. Ankylosaurs (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) of the Cedar Mountain Formation, Utah, and their stratigraphic distribution. Vertebrate Paleontology in Utah, D. D. Gillette (ed.), Utah Geological Survey Miscellaneous Publication 99-1:243-251 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
17480ETE W. P. Coombs. 1978. The families of the ornithischian dinosaur order Ankylosauria. Palaeontology 21(1):143-170 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
49284 J. I. Kirkland, L. Alcalá, M. A. Loewen, Espílez, L. Mampei and J. P. Wiersma. 2013. The basal nodosaurid Europelta carbonensis n. gen., n. sp. from the Lower Cretaceous (Lower Albian) Escucha Formation of northeastern Spain. PLoS One 8(12):e80405:1-40 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant/M. Carrano]
57899 J. I. Kirkland, R. L. Cifelli, B. B. Britt, D. L. Burge, F. L. DeCourten, J. G. Eaton, and J. M. Parrish. 1999. Distribution of vertebrate faunas in the Cedar Mountain Formation, east-central Utah. In D. D. Gillette (ed.), Vertebrate Paleontology in Utah. Utah Geological Survey Miscellaneous Publication 99(1):201-218 [P. Barrett/T. Cleary/M. Carrano]
51465 J. I. Kirkland and M. A. Loewen. 2011. Utah's prehistoric tanks: the ankylosaurs. Utah Geological Survey Notes 43(3):4-5 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
32617ETE J. I. Kirkland and S. K. Madsen. 2007. The Lower Cretaceous Cedar Mountain Formation, Eastern Utah: the view up an always interesting learning curve. Utah Geological Association Publication 35 1-108 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
69417 J. H. Madsen and W. E. Miller. 1979. the fossil vertebrates of Utah, an annotated bibliography. Brigham Young University Geology Studies 26(4):iii-147 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
14557ETE J. Pereda-Suberbiola. 1994. Polacanthus (Ornithischia, Ankylosauria), a transatlantic armoured dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of Europe and North America. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 232(4-6):133-159 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
50085 B. A. Swanson, V. L. Santucci, S. K. Madsen, A. S. Elder, and J. P. Kenworthy. 2005. Arches National Park paleontological survey. Geological Resources Division Technical Report NPS/NRGRD/GRDTR-05/01 1-36 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
81455 J. S. Tweet, V. L. Santucci, T. Connors and J. P. Kenworthy. 2012. Paleontological Resource Inventory and Monitoring: Northern Colorado Plateau Network. National Park Service Technical Report NPS/NCPN/NRTR—2012/585 xii-524 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]