North Creek tracksite (Jurassic to of the United States)

Also known as Zion N.P., Subway tracksite

Where: Washington County, Utah (37.2° N, 113.0° W: paleocoordinates 21.0° N, 51.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Kayenta Formation (Glen Canyon Group), Sinemurian to Sinemurian (199.3 - 182.7 Ma)

• "about 450 feet below the contact of the Kayenta and the Navajo" - the "main body" of the formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified, yellow, calcareous shale and poorly lithified, blue shale

• "The material in which they occur is resistant cream-colored limy shale that is overlain by friable purple shale."

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: trace

Collected by N. Maloney, J. S. Johnson in 1955

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• "discovered by Nelson Maloney whose father owned a ranch in the vicinity"

Primary reference: W. L. Stokes and A. F. Bruhn. 1960. Dinosaur tracks from Zion National Park and Vicinity, Utah. Utah Academy Proceedings 37:75-76 [M. Carrano/M. Oreska]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 103972: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Oreska on 04.02.2011, edited by Matthew Carrano

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet. theropod
tracks