Coppermine Trading Post tracksite, MNA 226: Pliensbachian - Toarcian, Arizona
collected by L. F. Brady 1958
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
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Dinosauria indet.
(Owen 1842)
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1 individual | |||||||||
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= Prosauropoda indet.
Huene 1920
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Galton 1971 | |||||||||
| ID from D. Baird | ||||||||||
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= Navahopus falcipollex n. gen., n. sp.
Baird 1980
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Baird 1980 | |||||||||
| trackway MNA G2.7092 | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Arizona | County: | Coconino |
| Coordinates: | 36.7° North, 111.4° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 23.9° North, 49.1° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Early/Lower Jurassic |
| Key time interval: | Pliensbachian - Toarcian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 192.90000 - 174.70000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Glen Canyon | Formation: | Navajo Sandstone | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Navajo Sandstone forms uppermost part of Glen Canyon Group, and is Early Jurassic, but probably not older than Pliensbachian (Irmis 2005. A review of the vertebrate fauna of the Lower Jurassic Navajo Sandstone in Arizona. Mesa Southwest Museum Bulletin 11:55–71) | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | "cross stratification" sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "Cross-stratified dune sand" | |
| Environment: | dune |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | mold/impression,trace |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Spatial orientation: | life position |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
| Spatial resolution: | autochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ),mechanical,field collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
| Collectors: | L. F. Brady | Collection dates: | 1958 |
| Collection method comments: A trackway of six pedes and six manus collected by Lionel F. Brady in 1958. | |||
Metadata
| Also known as: | Copper Mine, Kaibeto | ||
| Database number: | 53826 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | K. Maguire, M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2005-09-14 10:43:27 | Last modified: | 2020-01-23 16:38:58 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-09-14 10:43:27 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 64683. | L. F. Brady. 1960. Dinosaur tracks from the Navajo and Windgate sandstones. Plateau 32(4):81-82 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 14491 | ETE | D. Baird. 1980. A prosauropod dinosaur trackway from the Navajo Sandstone (Lower Jurassic) of Arizona. Aspects of Vertebrate History: Essays in Honor of Edwin Harris Colbert, L.L. Jacobs (ed.), Museum of Northern Arizona Press 219-230 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/K. Maguire] |
| 12373 | J. M. Clark and D. E. Fastovsky. 1986. Vertebrate biostratigraphy of the Glen Canyon Group in northern Arizona. The Beginning of the Age of the Dinosaurs: Faunal change across the Triassic-Jurassic boundary, N. C. Fraser and H.-D. Sues (eds.), Cambridge University Press 285-301 [R. Whatley/R. Whatley/R. Whatley] | |
| 12617 | ETE | P. M. Galton. 1971. The prosauropod dinosaur Ammosaurus, the crocodile Protosuchus, and their bearing on the age of the Navajo Sandstone of northeastern Arizona. Journal of Paleontology 45(5):781-795 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 65638 | A. P. Hunt and S. G. Lucas. 2006. The taxonomic status of Navahopus falcipollex and the ichnofauna and ichnofacies of the Navajo lithosome (Lower Jurassic) of western North America. 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 37:164-169 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/P. Wagner] | |
| 41099 | G. V. Irby. 1993. Early Jurassic dinosaur tracksites, northeastern Arizona. In D. Boaz & M. Dornan (ed.), Proceedings of the 1st Annual Symposium, Fossils of Arizona. Mesa Southwest Museum and Southwest Paleontological Society, Mesa, AZ 15-25 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 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] | |
| 61886 | M. G. Lockley and A. P. Hunt. 1995. Dinosaur Tracks and Other Fossil Footprints of the Western United States xxi-338 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |