Castle Gate No. 1 mine tracksite: Campanian, Utah
collected by Ballard, Watts
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Dinosauria
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Dinosauria indet.
Owen 1842
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Strevell 1930 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
| tridactyl | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Hadrosauridae
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Deinodontidae indet.
(Brown 1914)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| ID from W. D. Matthew | ||||||||||
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= Tyrannosauropus petersoni n. gen., n. sp.
Haubold 1971
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Haubold 1971 | |||||||||
| nomen dubium belonging to Hadrosauridae | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Utah | County: | Carbon |
| Coordinates: | 39.7° North, 110.9° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 47.4° North, 80.3° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Campanian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 7 |
| Key time interval: | Campanian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 83.60000 - 72.10000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Mesaverde | Formation: | Castlegate |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | gray sandstone |
| Secondary lithology: | coal |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | cast,trace |
| Degree of concentration: | dispersed |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | medium |
| Disassociated major elements: | some |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
| Spatial resolution: | autochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ),field collection,observed (not collected) |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
| Collectors: | Ballard, Watts |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Castlegate | ||
| Database number: | 71436 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2007-04-25 12:00:59 | Last modified: | 2017-03-20 15:55:23 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2007-04-25 12:00:59 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 29231. | ETE | W. Peterson. 1924. Dinosaur tracks in the roofs of coal mines: a strange phenomenon noted in Utah and Colorado. Natural History 24(3):388-391 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 53958 | Anonymous. 1923. Dinosaurs leave footprints in Utah coal mines. Coal Age 28:734 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 29189 | ETE | H. Haubold. 1971. In O. Kuhn (ed.), Handbuch der Paläoherpetologie / Encyclopedia of Paleoherpetology. Part 18. Ichnia Amphibiorum et Reptiliorum Fossilium 1-124 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 29230 | ETE | M. G. Lockley and A. P. Hunt. 1994. A track of the giant theropod dinosaur Tyrannosaurus from close to the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary, northern New Mexico. Ichnos 3:213-218 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 61886 | M. G. Lockley and A. P. Hunt. 1995. Dinosaur Tracks and Other Fossil Footprints of the Western United States xxi-338 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 32235 | L. Parker and J. Balsley. 1989. Coal mines as localities for studying trace fossils. In D. D. Gillette & M. G. Lockley (ed.), Dinosaur Tracks and Traces, Cambridge University Press 353-359 [R. Butler/R. Butler/M. Carrano] | |
| 24152 | ETE | C. N. Strevell. 1930. Dinosaur footprints from Carbon and Grand County, Utah: Strevell Collection, Salt Lake City. 1-9 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |