Teec Nos Pos, 1.6km E of Pteraichnus type, tracks: Oxfordian - Kimmeridgian, Arizona
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Theropoda
- Eubrontidae
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Megalosauripus sp.
Lessertisseur 1955
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Reptilia
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Sauropoda indet.
(Marsh 1878)
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| Tracks | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Pteraichnidae
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Pteraichnus sp.
Stokes 1957
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| Single trackway | ||||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Arizona | County: | Apache |
| Coordinates: | 36.9° North, 109.1° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 31.9° North, 54.7° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Late/Upper Jurassic |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Jurassic 5 | ||
| Key time interval: | Oxfordian - Kimmeridgian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 161.50000 - 149.20000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Summerville/Bluff Sandstone | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Upper part of the undifferentiated Summerville-Bluff Formation | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | wave ripples,bioturbation sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | coastal indet. |
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,observed (not collected) |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Collection method comments: Casts of specimens in University of Colorado at Denver-Museum of Western Colorado | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Tsetah Wash | ||
| Database number: | 94771 | ||
| Authorizer: | R. Butler | Enterer: | R. Butler |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2010-03-11 00:24:50 | Last modified: | 2018-04-16 16:10:14 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2010-03-11 00:24:50 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 32290. | M. G. Lockley and D. L. Mickelson. 1997. Dinosaur and pterosaur tracks in the Summerville and Bluff (Jurassic) beds of eastern Utah and northeastern Arizona. In O. J. Anderson, B. S. Kues, & S. G. Lucas (eds.), New Mexico Geological Society, 48th Field Conference, Mesozoic Geology and Paleontology of the Four Corners Region 48:133-138 [R. Butler/R. Butler/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 65404 | J. R. Foster and M. G. Lockley. 2006. The vertebrate ichnological record of the Morrison Formation (Upper Jurassic, North America). In J. R. Foster, S. G. Lucas (eds.), Paleontology and Geology of the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 36:203-216 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |