Slot Canyon tracksite: Early Albian - Middle Albian, Colorado
collected by Altschuld
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Dinosauria
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| Kurtz et al. 2001 | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Iguanodontipodidae
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| Kurtz et al. 2001 | 2 specimens | |||||||||
| trackways | ||||||||||
| Lockley et al. 2006 | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Colorado |
| Coordinates: | 38.4° North, 105.3° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 45.4° North, 54.5° West (Wright 2013) | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Early Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Albian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 4 |
| Key time interval: | Early Albian - Middle Albian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 113.2 - 106.3 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | bioturbation,brown sandstone |
| Secondary lithology: | black,gray silty sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "a series of bioturbated, amalgamated sandstone beds"; also described as "bioturbated, brownish sandstones with black and grey silty or shaley sandstone intervals." | |
| Environment: | estuary/bay |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | cast,trace |
| Degree of concentration: | concentrated |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Spatial orientation: | life position |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | variable |
| Associated major elements: | some |
| Disassociated major elements: | some |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
| Spatial resolution: | autochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ),observed (not collected) |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
| Collectors: | Altschuld |
Metadata
| Database number: | 66897 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano, S. Miller |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2006-10-23 07:30:21 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-10-23 07:30:21 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 19038. | ETE | M. G. Lockley. 1987. Dinosaur footprints from the Dakota Group of eastern Colorado. The Mountain Geologist 24(4):107-122 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 19033 | ETE | W. J. Kurtz, M. G. Lockley, and D. J. Engard. 2001. Dinosaur tracks in the Plainview Formation, Dakota Group (Cretaceous, Albian) near Cañon City, Colorado: a preliminary report on another "Dinosaur Ridge". The Mountain Geologist 38(3):155-164 [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] |