Holly Creek
Description
Source: Wikipédia
The Holly Creek Formation is a geologic formation in Arkansas. It preserves fossils dating back to the Cretaceous period which belong to the Trinity Group.
Découvertes
Source: The Paleobiology Database
Site(s) correspondant(s) à cette formation: 1
Weyerhaeuser Briar Plant Quarry [Holly Creek] : Arkansas - Howard 14027 78417 In the 1980s, during the course of field investigations on the De Queen sauropod trackways (Pittman & Gillette, 1989), one of us (JGP) collected vertebrate remains and fossiliferous rock matrix from the upper part of the Holly Creek Formation, which cropped out in a drainage ditch excavated by the mining company (formerly Briar Mining Site, now CertainTeed Mining) in association with a reservoir to hold wastewater and mined residues.
Publication(s)
La base comprend 2 publication(s).
Source: The Paleobiology Database
- ↑1 2 J. G. Pittman and D. D. Gillette. 1989. The Briar site: a new sauropod dinosaur tracksite in Lower Cretaceous beds of Arkansas, USA. In D. D. Gillette and M. G. Lockley (eds.), Dinosaur Tracks and Traces. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
- ↑1 C. A. Suarez, J. Frederickson, and R. L. Cifelli, J. G. Pittman, R. l. Nydam, R. K. Hunt-Foster, K. Morgan. 2021. A new vertebrate fauna from the Lower Cretaceous Holly Creek Formation of the Trinity Group, southwest Arkansas, USA. PeerJ 9(e12242):1-60 (https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12242)
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