Also known as Broomfield
Where: Broomfield County, Colorado (39.9° N, 105.1° W: paleocoordinates 46.6° N, 81.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Laramie/Arapahoe Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; fine-grained, brown, gray sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: trace
Collected by S. Langston, J. Hoiem in 1999
Collection methods: surface (float), peel or thin section,
Primary reference: J. Wright and M. G. Lockley. 2001. Dinosaur and turtle tracks from the Laramie/Arapahoe formations (Upper Cretaceous), near Denver, Colorado, USA. Cretaceous Research 22:365-376 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 224523: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 11.03.2022
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Ornithopoda indet. Marsh 1881 ornithopod morphotype C; tracks 6, 8. "an ornithopod (dryosaurid or hypsilophodontid)"
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Coelurosauria indet. Huene 1914 coelurosaur morphotype A; tracks 3–5, 7, 9–14 and morphotype B; tracks 1, 2, 15. "possible trackmaker candidates for morphotypes A and B include ornithomimids, elmisaurids and caenagnathids"
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