Bendrick Rock tracksite, Barry: Norian, United Kingdom
collected by M. Tucker, T. Burchette, S. England, C. Jones 1974, 1989–1990
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Grallatoridae
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Gigandipus sp.
(Hitchcock 1855)
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Benton and Spencer 1995 | |||||||||
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Anchisauripus sp.
Lull 1904
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| "compensated gait" | ||||||||||
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= Grallator sp.
Hitchcock 1858
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Lockley et al. 1996 | |||||||||
| "or Grallator (Grallator)" | ||||||||||
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cf. Anchisauripus sp.
Lull 1904
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Lockley et al. 1996 | |||||||||
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Reptilia
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? Pseudotetrasauropus sp.
Ellenberger 1965
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Lockley et al. 1996 | |||||||||
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= Pseudotetrasauropus sp.
Ellenberger 1965
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Lockley and Meyer 2000 | |||||||||
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? Tetrasauropus sp.
Ellenberger 1970
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Lockley et al. 1996 | |||||||||
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= Tetrasauropus sp.
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Lockley and Meyer 2000 | |||||||||
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= Eosauropus sp.
Lockley et al. 2006
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Lockley et al. 2006 | |||||||||
| CU 169.1 | ||||||||||
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? Eosauropus sp.
Lockley et al. 2006
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Lockley et al. 2006 | |||||||||
| CU 169.3 | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United Kingdom | State/province: | Wales | County: | The Vale of Glamorgan |
| Coordinates: | 51.4° North, 3.3° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 31.1° North, 0.6° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Triassic | Epoch: | Late Triassic |
| Stage: | Norian | 10 m.y. bin: | Triassic 4 |
| Key time interval: | Norian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 227 - 208.5 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Mercia Mudstone | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: at least 8 track-bearing levels | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | sandstone |
| Secondary lithology: | marl |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: The bed with the best prints is a "graded sandstone with ripple marks, overlain by a marl parting" | |
| Environment: | alluvial fan |
| Geology comments: "fluvial sandstones and silstones, and shore-zone lacustrine sediments"; site is in sheet flood deposits associated with alluvial fan margins. Interpreted as a "desert piedmont" environment. | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | mold/impression,trace |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Spatial orientation: | life position |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | excellent |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
| Spatial resolution: | autochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | bulk,selective quarrying,surface (in situ),mechanical,field collection,observed (not collected) | ||
| Collection size: | 450 specimens | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis | ||
| Collectors: | M. Tucker, T. Burchette, S. England, C. Jones | Collection dates: | 1974, 1989–1990 |
| Collection method comments: Over 450 footprints have been observed; discovered by students from University College, Cardiff | |||
Metadata
| Also known as: | Bendricks Rock, South Glamorgan | ||
| Database number: | 57949 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | K. Maguire, M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2006-01-11 12:42:41 | Last modified: | 2021-10-28 15:19:24 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-01-11 12:42:41 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 52462. | M. E. Tucker and T. P. Burchette. 1977. Triassic dinosaur footprints from South Wales: their context and preservation. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 22:195-208 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 15587 | ETE | M. J. Benton and P. S. Spencer. 1995. Fossil Reptiles of Great Britain. Chapman & Hall, London 1-386 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/J. Tennant] |
| 27782 | ETE | J. B. Delair and W. A. S. Sarjeant. 1985. History and bibliography of the study of fossil vertebrate footprints in the British Isles: supplement 1973–1983. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 49:123-160 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 37185 | S. Howe. 1994. Extracting dinosaur trackways: a Welsh experience. The Geological Curator 6(2):83-88 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 78434 | M. G. Lockley, M. King, S. Howe and T. Sharp. 1996. Dinosaur tracks and other archosaur footprints from the Triassic of South Wales. Ichnos 5:23-41 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 39735 | M. G. Lockley, S. G. Lucas, and A. P. Hunt. 2006. Eosauropus, a new name for a Late Triassic track: further observations on the Late Triassic ichnogenus Tetrasauropus and related forms, with notes on the limits of interpretation. In J. D. Harris, S. G. Lucas, J. A. Spielmann, M. G. Lockley, A. R. C. Milner, J. I. Kirkland (eds.), The Triassic-Jurassic Terrestrial Transition. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 37:192-198 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/P. Wagner] | |
| 23358 | ETE | M. G. Lockley and C. A. Meyer. 2000. Dinosaur Tracks and Other Fossil Footprints of Europe. Columbia University Press, New York 1-323 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 60844 | R. T. McCrea, D. H. Tanke, L. G. Buckley, M. G. Lockley, J. O. Farlow, L. Xing, N. A. Matthews, C. W. Helm, S. G. Pemberton and B. H. Breithaupt. 2015. Vertebrate ichnopathology: pathologies inferred from dinosaur tracks and trackways from the Mesozoic. Ichnos 22(3–4):235-260 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |