Slot Canyon tracksite: Early/Lower Albian - Middle Albian, Colorado
collected by Altschuld

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Dinosauria
Dinosauria indet. Owen 1842
Kurtz et al. 2001
Reptilia - Iguanodontipodidae
Iguanodontidae indet. Bonaparte 1850
Kurtz et al. 2001 2 specimens
trackways
    = Caririchnium sp. Leonardi 1984
Lockley et al. 2006
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Colorado
Coordinates: 38.4° North, 105.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:37.4° North, 61.8° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Early/Lower Cretaceous
Stage:Albian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 4
Key time interval:Early/Lower Albian - Middle Albian
Age range of interval:113.00000 - 106.20000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Dakota Formation:Plainview
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: middle of formation; 10 m above conglomeratic beds of the Lytle Fm. and about 8 m below shales of the Glancairn Fm.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:bioturbation,brown sandstone
Secondary lithology:black,gray silty sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "a series of bioturbated, amalgamated sandstone beds"; also described as "bioturbated, brownish sandstones with black and grey silty or shaley sandstone intervals."
Environment:estuary/bay
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:cast,trace
Degree of concentration:concentrated
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Spatial orientation:life position
Preservation of anatomical detail:variable
Associated major elements:some
Disassociated major elements:some
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Spatial resolution:autochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),observed (not collected)
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collectors:Altschuld
Metadata
Database number:66897
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano, S. Miller
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2006-10-23 07:30:21 Last modified:2008-03-12 15:27:58
Access level:the public Released:2006-10-23 07:30:21
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
19038.ETE M. G. Lockley. 1987. Dinosaur footprints from the Dakota Group of eastern Colorado. The Mountain Geologist 24(4):107-122 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

19033ETE W. J. Kurtz, M. G. Lockley, and D. J. Engard. 2001. Dinosaur tracks in the Plainview Formation, Dakota Group (Cretaceous, Albian) near Cañon City, Colorado: a preliminary report on another "Dinosaur Ridge". The Mountain Geologist 38(3):155-164 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
25992ETE M. G. Lockley, J. Holbrook, R. Kukihara and M. Matsukawa. 2006. An ankylosaur-dominated dinosaur tracksite in the Cretaceous Dakota Group of Colorado: paleoenvironmental and sequence stratigraphic context. In S. G. Lucas and R. M. Sullivan (eds.), Late Cretaceous Vertebrates from the Western Interior. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 35:95-104 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]