Where: Fremont County, Wyoming (42.8° N, 108.7° W: paleocoordinates 43.4° N, 69.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Naturita Formation, Cenomanian (100.5 - 93.9 Ma)
• base of "upper heavy sandstone" member of Dakota Fm.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: trace
Collected by E. Branson & M. Mehl
Collection methods: quarrying, ,
Primary reference: E. B. Branson and M. G. Mehl. 1932. Footprint records from Cretaceous, Triassic, and Pennsylvanian. Bulletin of the Geological Society of America 42:284-285 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 46556: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 19.01.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Dakotasaurus browni n. gen. n. sp.
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