ammonites
Hidden Canyon Overlook (Jurassic of the United States)

Where: Utah (38.4° N, 109.5° W: paleocoordinates 34.3° N, 55.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Salt Wash Member (Morrison Formation), Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 150.8 Ma)

• lower part of member

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "channel"; sandstone

• "a very massive sandstone, several meters in thickness, that is capped by linguloid current ripples, that appear to indicate flow to the west"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, trace

Collected by F. Barnes in 1994

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: F. A. Barnes and M. G. Lockley. 1995. Trackway evidence for social sauropods from the Morrison Formation, eastern Utah (USA). In M. G. Lockley, V. F. dos Santos, C. A. Meyer, & A. P. Hunt (eds.), Aspects of Sauropod Paleobiology. GAIA 10:37-41 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 61676: authorized by Matt Carrano, entered by Matt Carrano on 22.06.2006