First report on dinosaur tracks from the Burro Canyon Formation, San Juan County, Utah, USA : evidence of a diverse, hitherto unknown Lower Cretaceous dinosaur fauna

• Autorzy: Milàn J. , Chiappe L. M. , Loope D. B. , Kirkland J. I. , Lockley M. G.

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DOI

10.14241/asgp.2015.034

• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

The newly discovered White Mesa tracksite in the Burro Canyon Formation represents a snapshot of a diverse, Lower Cretaceous dinosaur fauna from south-eastern Utah. The tracks were found at a construction site where the sandstone had been bulldozed and broken up. All tracks were found as deep, well-preserved natural casts on the underside of the sandstone slabs. Individual theropod tracks are 19–57 cm in length; one peculiar track shows evidence of a possible pathological swelling in the middle of digit III and an apparently didactyl track is tentatively assigned to a dromaeosaurid. Individual sauropod tracks are found with pes lengths of 36–72 cm, and interestingly, three distinct shapes of manus tracks, ranging from wide banana shaped to rounded and hoof-like. Ornithopods are represented with individual tracks 18–37 cm in length; a sin gle track can possibly be attributed to the thyreophoran ichnogenus Deltapodus. Zircon U-Pb dating places the track-bearing layer in the Barremian, contemporary to the lower Yellow Cat Member of the Cedar Mountain Formation, which has a similar faunal composition based on both tracks and body fossils. This new track-fauna demonstrates the existence of a diverse dinosaurian assemblage in the lower part of the Burro Canyon Formation, which hitherto is not known to yield skeletalre mains.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

dinosaur tracks; Lower Cretaceous; Barremian; Utah; pathology; dinosaur fauna

• Wydawca: Polskie Towarzystwo Geologiczne
• Czasopismo: Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae
• Rocznik: 2015
• Tom: Vol. 85, No. 3
• Strony: 515--525
• Opis fizyczny: Bibliogr. 66 poz., rys., tab.

Twórcy

autor

Milàn J.

• GeomuseumFaxe, Østsjællands Museum, Østervej 2, DK-4640 Faxe, Denmark
• Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Øster Voldgade 5-7, DK-1350 Copenhagen K, Denmark

autor

Chiappe L. M.

• The Dinosaur Institute, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90007, USA

autor

Loope D. B.

• Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68588-0340, USA

autor

Kirkland J. I.

• Utah Geological Survey, 1594 W. North Temple, Suite 3110, PO Box 146100, Salt Lake City, UT 84114-6100

autor

Lockley M. G.

• Dinosaur Tracks Museum, University of Colorado Denver, PO Box 173364, Denver, CO 80217, USA

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