White Mesa tracksite, LACM Loc. 7711 (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: San Juan County, Utah (37.5° N, 109.3° W: paleocoordinates 37.0° N, 59.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Burro Canyon Formation, Barremian (129.4 - 125.0 Ma)

• lower sandstone unit

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; medium-grained sandstone

• "a wavy to flat-bedded medium-grained sandstone 1–2 m thick"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, trace

Collected in 2008

Collection methods: surface (float),

Primary reference: J. Milàn, L. M. Chiappe, D. B. Loope, J. I. Kirkland, and M. G. Lockley. 2015. First report on dinosaur tracks from the Burro Canyon Formation, San Juan County, Utah, USA – evidence of a diverse, hitherto unknown Lower Cretaceous dinosaur fauna. Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae 85:515-525 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 223350: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 09.11.2021

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Saurischia -
Sauropoda indet.
Sauropoda indet. Marsh 1878 sauropod
LACM 154074, 154075, 154083, 154087, 154088
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet.
Theropoda indet. theropod
LACM 154022, 154071, 154073, 154078, 154081, 154082
 Ornithischia -
? Deltapodus sp., Ornithopoda indet.
? Deltapodus sp. Whyte and Romano 1995 ornithischian
LACM 154084
Ornithopoda indet. Marsh 1881 ornithopod
LACM 154070, 154079, 154086