Where: Garfield County, Utah (37.7° N, 111.5° W: paleocoordinates 24.6° N, 49.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Navajo Sandstone Formation (Glen Canyon Group), Pliensbachian to Pliensbachian (189.6 - 175.6 Ma)

• Navajo Sandstone forms uppermost part of Glen Canyon Group, and is Early Jurassic, but probably not older than Pliensbachian (Irmis 2005. A review of the vertebrate fauna of the Lower Jurassic Navajo Sandstone in Arizona. Mesa Southwest Museum Bulletin 11:55–71)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: dune; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collected by W. Stokes

Primary reference: A. H. Hamblin and J. R. Foster. 2001. Ancient animal footprints and traces in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, south-central Utah. D. A. Sprinkel, T. C. Chidsey, Jr., & P. B. Anderson (eds.), Geology of Utah's Parks and Monuments: 2000 Utah Geological Association Publication 28:1-12 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/M. Carrano] more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 57069: authorized by Matt Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 01.12.2005

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