Pipeline Road tracksite: Cenomanian, Utah
collected by Anfinson
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
|
Reptilia
- Koreanaornipodidae
|
||||||||||
|
Aquatilavipes sp.
Currie 1981
|
8 specimens | |||||||||
|
= Koreanaornis cf. hamanensis
Kim 1969
|
Anfinson et al. 2009 | |||||||||
| DINO 17873A, B | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Utah | County: | Uintah |
| Coordinates: | 40.5° North, 109.4° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 41.3° North, 70.9° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Cenomanian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 5 |
| Key time interval: | Cenomanian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 100.50000 - 93.90000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Naturita | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: uppermost 2 m of formation | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | current ripples,fine sandstone |
| Secondary lithology: | very fine siltstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "alternations of mm-thick fine rhythmic silt layers with sandstones about 10-20 cms thick. The footprints are preserved in current-ripple-laminated, fine-grained quartz sandstone capped by a very-fine silt layer" | |
| Environment: | marginal marine indet. |
| Glacial or sequence phase: | transgressive |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | mold/impression,trace |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Spatial orientation: | life position |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | medium |
| 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 |
| Collectors: | Anfinson |
Metadata
| Also known as: | DNM, Dinosaur National Monument | ||
| Database number: | 95693 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2010-04-23 14:33:13 | Last modified: | 2023-10-02 15:04:50 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2010-04-23 14:33:13 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 32504. | ETE | O. A. Anfinson and J. A. Maxson. 2004. A new ichnospecies of Aquatilavipes from the Albian-Cenomanian Dakota Formation of northeastern Utah. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 36(5):67 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 32503 | ETE | O. A. Anfinson, M. G. Lockley, S. H. Kim, K. S. Kim, and J. Y. Kim. 2009. First report of the small bird track Koreanaornis from the Cretaceous of North America: implications for avian ichnotaxonomy and paleoecology. Cretaceous Research 30:885-894 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |