Carrizo Creek tracksite: Kimmeridgian, Oklahoma
collected by M. Lockley 1985
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Theropoda
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cf. Gypsichnites sp.
Sternberg 1932
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2 individuals | |||||||||
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Reptilia
- Theropoda
- Grallatoridae
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Ornithopoda indet.
Marsh 1881
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1 individual | |||||||||
| smaller | ||||||||||
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= Theropoda indet.
Marsh 1881
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Conrad et al. 1987 | |||||||||
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= cf. Grallator sp.
Hitchcock 1858
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Lockley et al. 2001 | |||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Oklahoma | County: | Cimarron |
| Coordinates: | 37.0° North, 103.0° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 31.6° North, 49.6° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Late Jurassic |
| Stage: | Kimmeridgian | 10 m.y. bin: | Jurassic 5 |
| Key time interval: | Kimmeridgian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 154.8 - 149.2 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | desiccation cracks sandstone |
| Secondary lithology: | brown siltstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "sandy track beds are "mid-cracked" with finer brownish silty interbeds and an overlying conglomeratic sandstone which fills the mudcracks of the upper bed" | |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | mold/impression,trace |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Spatial orientation: | life position |
| Associated major elements: | all |
| 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: | M. Lockley | Collection dates: | 1985 |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Kenton, Coopers Arroyo | ||
| Database number: | 92285 | ||
| Authorizer: | R. Butler, M. Carrano | Enterer: | R. Butler, M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2009-11-04 12:07:22 | Last modified: | 2023-07-27 14:35:38 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2009-11-04 12:07:22 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 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] |
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] | |
| 32279 | M. G. Lockley, J. L. Wright, W. Langston, Jr. and E. S. West. 2001. New pterosaur track specimens and tracksites in the Late Jurassic of Oklahoma and Colorado: their paleobiological significance and regional ichnological context. Modern Geology 24:179-203 [R. Butler/R. Butler/M. Carrano] | |
| 85444 | D. R. Richmond, T. C. Hunt, and R. L. Cifelli. 2020. Stratigraphy and sedimentology of the Morrison Formation in the western panhandle of Oklahoma with reference to the historical Stovall dinosaur quarries. Journal of Geology 128:477-515 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |