Hidden Canyon Overlook tracksite (Jurassic of the United States)

Where: Utah (38.7° N, 109.8° W: paleocoordinates 34.3° N, 55.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Salt Wash Member (Morrison Formation), Kimmeridgian (157.3 - 152.1 Ma)

• lower part of member

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "channel"; lithified, medium-grained, brown, white sandstone

• "a very massive sandstone, several meters in thickness, that is capped by linguloid current ripples, that appear to indicate flow to the west". "tan to white, medium-grained sandstone bed."

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, trace

Collected by F. Barnes in 1994

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: F. A. Barnes and M. G. Lockley. 1995. Trackway evidence for social sauropods from the Morrison Formation, eastern Utah (USA). In M. G. Lockley, V. F. dos Santos, C. A. Meyer, & A. P. Hunt (eds.), Aspects of Sauropod Paleobiology. GAIA 10:37-41 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 61676: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 22.06.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet.1
Theropoda indet.1 Marsh 1881 theropod
 Saurischia -
cf. Brontopodus sp.2
cf. Brontopodus sp.2 Farlow et al. 1989 sauropod
in addition to several isolated tracks
1Foster and Lockley 2006; 2Lockley et al. 1998