Panther Mine tracksite: Campanian, Utah

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Tyrannosauridae
Deinodontidae indet. (Brown 1914)
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]