Plainview Formation

Plainview Formation
Stratigraphic range: Albian ~112–100 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Type	Geological formation
Unit of	Dakota Group
Underlies	Glencairn Formation
Overlies	Lytle Formation
Lithology
Primary	Sandstone
Other	Shale, siltstone
Location
Coordinates	38.4°N 105.3°W / 38.4; -105.3
Approximate paleocoordinates	37.4°N 61.7°W / 37.4; -61.7
Region	Colorado
Country	United States
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The Plainview Formation is an Early Cretaceous (Albian) geologic formation of the Dakota Group in Colorado.^[1] Fossil ankylosaur tracks and tracks of Caririchnium sp. have been reported from the formation.^[2]

Description

The formation overlies the Lytle Formation and is overlain by the Glencairn Formation and comprises resistant, brown-weathered sandstones, and dark shales and siilstones, also described as bioturbated brownish sandstones with black and grey silty or shaley sandstone intervals. The formation was deposited in a variety of near-shore and/or marginal marine environments. The tracks occur in the upper part of an estuarine point bar sequence, overlain by brackish bay or lagoon deposits.^[1]

See also

• List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations
  • List of stratigraphic units with ornithischian tracks
    • Ankylosaur tracks

References

1. Plainview Formation at Fossilworks.org
2. Weishampel et al., 2004, pp.517-607

Bibliography

• Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; Osmólska, Halszka (2004), The Dinosauria, 2nd edition, Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 1–880, ISBN 0-520-24209-2, retrieved 2019-02-21
• Kurtz, W.J.; Lockley, M.G.; Engard, D.J. (2001), "Dinosaur tracks in the Plainview Formation, Dakota Group (Cretaceous, Albian) near Cañon City, Colorado: a preliminary report on another "Dinosaur Ridge"", The Mountain Geologist, 38: 155–164
• Lockley, M.G (1987), "Dinosaur footprints from the Dakota Group of eastern Colorado", The Mountain Geologist, 24: 107–122