Also known as Moab, western site

Where: Grand County, Utah (38.5° N, 109.7° W: paleocoordinates 25.5° N, 47.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Navajo Sandstone Formation (Glen Canyon Group), Pliensbachian to Pliensbachian (190.8 - 174.1 Ma)

• Navajo Sandstone forms uppermost part of Glen Canyon Group, and is Early Jurassic, but probably not older than Pliensbachian (Irmis 2005. A review of the vertebrate fauna of the Lower Jurassic Navajo Sandstone in Arizona. Mesa Southwest Museum Bulletin 11:55–71). Have been erroneously described as coming from the Kayenta Fm. as well. 6 track-bearing beds.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified, fine-grained, quartzose sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression, trace

Collected by L. Epmeier, F. Barnes in 1971

Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),

• Museum: CU-MWC

Primary reference: J. K. Gilland. 1979. Paleoenvironment of a carbonate lens in the lower Navajo Sandstone near Moab, Utah. Utah Geology 6(1):29-38 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 60602: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Susanna Kümmell on 18.05.2006, edited by Matthew Carrano

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