Goddard Space Flight Center (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as NASA

Where: Prince George's County, Maryland (39.0° N, 76.8° W: paleocoordinates 33.1° N, 30.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Patuxent Formation (Potomac Group), Aptian (125.0 - 113.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: mire or swamp; fine-grained, ferruginous, sideritic sandstone and red claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collected by R. Stanford in 2016

Primary reference: R. Stanford, M. G. Lockley, C. Tucker, S. J. Godfrey, and S. M. Stanford. 2018. A diverse mammal-dominated, footprint assemblage from wetland deposits in the Lower Cretaceous of Maryland. Scientific Reports 8(1):741:1-12 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 26782: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 31.10.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Nodosauridae
? Nodosauridae indet., Nodosauridae indet.
? Nodosauridae indet. Marsh 1890 ankylosaur
4 tracks
Nodosauridae indet. Marsh 1890 ankylosaur
osteoderm
 Theropoda - Grallatoridae
cf. Grallator sp.
cf. Grallator sp. Hitchcock 1858 theropod
trackway segments T1–T4 (23 total tracks)
 Saurischia -
Sauropoda indet.
 Pterosauria -
Pterosauria indet.
Pterosauria indet. pterosaur
tracks p1–p5
Mammalia
  -
Mammalia "indet. B", Mammalia "indet. C", Sederipes goddardensis n. gen. n. sp.
Mammalia "indet. B" Linnaeus 1758 mammal
track m7; "morphotype B"
Mammalia "indet. C" Linnaeus 1758 mammal
track m23; "morphotype C"
Sederipes goddardensis n. gen. n. sp. Stanford et al. 2018 mammal
"morphotype A"