Horn Silver Gulch tracksite, "northern site": Oxfordian - Kimmeridgian, Utah
collected by Mickleson, Lockley

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Pterosauria - Pteraichnidae
At least 9 trackways on a single slab
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Utah County:Emery
Coordinates: 39.1° North, 110.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:27.1° North, 42.7° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Jurassic Epoch: Late Jurassic
Stage: Oxfordian - Kimmeridgian 10 m.y. bin: Jurassic 5
Key time interval: Oxfordian - Kimmeridgian
Age range of interval: 161.5 - 149.2 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Summerville
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:estuary/bay
Geology comments: Coastal tidal flat/sabkha
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:trace
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Spatial orientation:life position
Abundance in sediment:common
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Spatial resolution:autochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (float),surface (in situ),field collection,observed (not collected)
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Collectors:Mickleson, Lockley
Metadata
Also known as:Ferron
Database number:94672
Authorizer:R. Butler Enterer:R. Butler
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2010-03-08 08:15:19 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2010-03-08 08:15:19
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
32245. D. L. Mickelson, M. G. Lockley, J. Bishop and J. Kirkland. 2004. A new pterosaur tracksite from the Jurassic Summerville Formation, near Ferron, Utah. Ichnos 11:125-142 [R. Butler/R. Butler/M. Carrano]