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The Martin Lockley Fossil Track Collection contains over 3,000 cataloged specimens. Most of the collection was collected from the Rocky Mountain Region, with extensive collections of Pennsylvanian (Pottsville Formation), Permian (Abo Formation), Triassic (Chinle Formation), Jurassic (Entrada, Navajo, Nugget, and Wingate Sandstones, Kayenta, Moenave, Morrison, and Summerville Formations), Cretaceous (Dakota Group, Cedar Mountain and Laramie Formations), Eocene (Green River Formation), Miocene (Brown’s Park and Muddy Creek Formations) specimens. Other important track collections include Cretaceous-aged tracks from China and South Korea.
All the Martin Lockley Fossil Track Collection records are available online through Arctos. Access to the database as well as information on data use licenses and polices and how to use Arctos can be found on the databases page.
Learn more about the Martin Lockley Fossil Track Collection by visiting this online special exhibit from the University of California Museum of Paleontology: . Here you can learn more about how tracks get preserved as fossils, where fossil tracks are found, the methods used to study fossil tracks, how to tell who made fossil tracks, and much more.