Higbee tracksite: Kimmeridgian - Tithonian, Colorado
collected 1937

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Dinosauria
Dinosauria indet. Owen 1842
50 individuals
Reptilia - Theropoda
Coelurosauria indet. (Huene 1914)
Lockley 1986 1 specimen
DMNH 1498
    = ? Theropoda indet. Marsh 1881
Foster and Lockley 2006
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Colorado County:Otero
Coordinates: 37.8° North, 103.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:33.0° North, 50.8° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Jurassic Epoch: Late Jurassic
Stage: Kimmeridgian - Tithonian 10 m.y. bin: Jurassic 5 - Jurassic 6
Key time interval: Kimmeridgian - Tithonian
Age range of interval: 154.8 - 145 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Morrison
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: probably at the transition of Unit B to Unit C of the Morrison Formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:wave ripples,ooidal grainstone
Secondary lithology: siltstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "clay-rich sandstone"; "riiple-marked, oolitic grainstones and shale with intercalated, thinly bedded siltstones"
Environment:lacustrine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:cast,mold/impression,trace
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Spatial orientation:life position
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Spatial resolution:autochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),field collection,observed (not collected)
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Museum repositories:DMNH
Collection dates:1937
Metadata
Database number:52923
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:K. Maguire, M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-08-26 14:12:15 Last modified:2018-04-18 15:16:51
Access level:the public Released:2005-08-26 14:12:15
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
56269. F. Frazier, K. Houck, M. Lockley, N. Prince, W. Vest and V. Coringato. 1983. Interpretations of some depositional environments and paleoecology in the Morrison Formation of south eastern Colorado. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 14:602-603 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

65433 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]
65404 J. R. Foster and M. G. Lockley. 2006. The vertebrate ichnological record of the Morrison Formation (Upper Jurassic, North America). In J. R. Foster, S. G. Lucas (eds.), Paleontology and Geology of the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 36:203-216 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
65405 J. D. Harris. 1998. Dinosaur footprints from Garden Park, Colorado. Modern Geology 23:291-307 [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]
19038ETE M. G. Lockley. 1987. Dinosaur footprints from the Dakota Group of eastern Colorado. The Mountain Geologist 24(4):107-122 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
14283ETE N. K. Prince and M. G. Lockley. 1989. The sedimentology of Purgatoire tracksite region, Morrison Formation of southeastern Colorado. In D. D. Gillette & M. G. Lockley (ed.), Dinosaur Tracks and Traces 155-163 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/M. Carrano]