Red Gulch Dinosaur Tracksite
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Red Gulch Dinosaur Tracksite is an assemblage of fossil dinosaur footprints on public land near Shell, in Big Horn County, Wyoming.[1]
They were discovered in 1997 by Erik P. Kvale, a research geologist from the
The site is managed by the Bureau of Land Management as part of the Red Gulch/Alkali National Back Country Byway and is open to the public.[1]
Fossils
The
Besides the trackways, a variety of fossils can be found, including
Geology
The tracksite is in a limestone layer in the lower part of the Sundance Formation. Its discovery was somewhat surprising, since the Sundance was historically considered to be marine in nature. Indeed, the layer just above the tracksite contains abundant marine fossils including numerous Gryphaea nebrascensis, indicating that later in the Jurassic it was once again submerged.[4]
See also
- Sundance Formation
- Fossil trackway
- Sundance Sea
References
- ^ a b c "Red Gulch Dinosaur Tracksite". BLM. Retrieved 24 May 2022.
- ^ "Dinosaur Tracksites". Bighorn Basin Geoscience Center. 2018. Retrieved 24 May 2022.
- ^ N.H. Darton, Jurassic formations of the Black Hills of South Dakota, Geological Society of America Bulletin, v.10, p. 383-396 (1899).
- ^ a b Chamberlain, C. Kent (1998). "Red Gulch Dinosaur Tracksite". Archived from the original on 23 February 2007.
- ^ Breithaupt, B.H.; Southwell, E.H.; Adams, T.; Matthews, N.A. (September 2001). "Innovative documentation methodologies in the study of the most extensive dinosaur tracksite in Wyoming" (PDF). 6th Fossil Research Conference Proceedings Volume. Lakewood: Geologic Resources Division: 113–122. Retrieved 24 May 2022.
- ^ Steele, Ken; Fisher, Mark P.; Steele, Deb D. "Red Gulch Dinosaur Tracksite & Sundance Seaway". Geology of Wyoming. Retrieved 24 May 2022.[self-published source]
External links
- BLM Wyoming.gov: official Red Gulch Dinosaur Tracksite website
- Geo-sciences.com: Red Gulch Dinosaur Tracksite – Wyoming’s Middle Jurassic Treasure
Red Gulch Dinosaur Tracksite.