Stryczowice tracksite: Smithian, Poland
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
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Prorotodactylus sp.
Ptaszynski 2000
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| MPT.P 345.1–5 | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Poland | State/province: | Swietoryzskie | County: | Ostrowiec |
| Coordinates: | 50.9° North, 21.3° East (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 19.0° North, 26.9° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Triassic | Epoch: | Early/Lower Triassic |
| Stage: | Olenekian | 10 m.y. bin: | Triassic 1 |
| Key time interval: | Smithian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 251.20000 - 248.90000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Labyrinthodontidae Beds | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: "a composite 5–6 m section of “Labyrinthodontidae Beds”...This unit is correlated to the Middle Buntsandstein of the Germanic Basin based on palynomorphs and conchostracans and lithostratigraphic correlation" | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | brown,red,yellow sandstone |
| Secondary lithology: | claystone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "These beds represent a sequence of red to reddish-brown and yellowish sandstones and mudstones with claystone intercalations." | |
| Environment: | "floodplain" |
| Geology comments: "channels and floodplains of a moderately to weakly braided river system" | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | trace |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Spatial orientation: | life position |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
| Spatial resolution: | autochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ),field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 175800 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2016-01-11 11:39:53 | Last modified: | 2016-01-11 11:59:47 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2016-01-11 11:39:53 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 57577. | S. L. Brusatte, G. Niedzwiedzki, and R. J. Butler. 2011. Footprints pull origin and diversification of dinosaur stem lineage deep into Early Triassic. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences 278(1708):1107-1113 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |