Spectrum Track Site

Washington, Utah

State Instutional Trust Lands

Sienna Hills/Spectrum Site

I've spent more time googling about this  site, it wasn't too hard to find, just drove to the fence line and wandered till we found the site. Found the first reference from a paper linked on the Dinosaur Discovery site.

 

"The footprints at the Spectrum Tracksite are preserved at the very top of the Springdale Sandstone, the lower member of the Kayenta Formation. The track-bearing bed is about 45-50 cm and approximately 5M above the Kayenta base.(Hamblin et al. 2006)."NEVADA STATE MUSEUM
PALEONTOLOGICAL PAPERS NUMBER 1

The site is at the bottom of a wash, with a steep bank on the northwest bank. It has been fenced by SITLA with access for pedestrians but not atv's. The gates on roads approaching this site are locked but the fence only extends into the scrub. It is posted so consider  if this site is worth the possible consequences.

 Trackway with at least four steps.

The top of the Springdale Sandstone, which was deposited in a fluvial channel, preserves a megatracksite that can be traced extensively from southwestern Utah, as far east as Ward Terrace near Tuba City in north-central Arizona. The interpretation of the “Springdale megatracksite” (Lucas et al. 2005a),supported by several authors (DeBlieux et al.)

 Is this a skin impression? The tracks are mostly underprints, this is within a larger track. The overlieing bed is not preserved here, It would interesting to find the contact  at other Springdale Sandstone sites and see if the overlieing beds dip into the tracks, and to see if the prints are from the overlieing beds.

 Keys for scale, theropod

 Anomoepus? Additional info

Full track site with Shnabkaib in the distance.