Panther Mine tracksite: Campanian, Utah
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
- Tyrannosauridae
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Deinodontidae indet.
(Brown 1914)
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2 specimens | |||||||||
synonym of Tyrannosauridae | ||||||||||
ID by W. D. Matthew | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Utah | County: | Carbon |
Coordinates: | 39.7° North, 110.9° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 47.3° 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 | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: "Castlegate B coal" |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | not reported |
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | cast,trace |
Degree of concentration: | dispersed |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Spatial orientation: | life position |
Disassociated major elements: | all |
Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
Spatial resolution: | autochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | surface (in situ),field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
Database number: | 86842 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2009-02-20 14:57:03 | Last modified: | 2013-06-17 14:46:15 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2009-02-20 14:57:03 |
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:
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] |