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The Moenave Formation is a Mesozoic geologic formation, in the Glen Canyon Group. It is found in Utah and Arizona . The Moenave was deposited on an erosion surface on the Chinle Formation following an early Jurassic uplift and unconformity that represents about ten million years of missing sedimentation. [ 1 ]
Tuba City is located approximately 50 miles (80 km) from the eastern entrance to Grand Canyon National Park and approximately 78 miles (126 km) from Flagstaff. Arizona does not observe Daylight Saving Time , but the Navajo Nation does within its boundaries.
Moenave has an estimated elevation of 4,774 feet (1,455 m) above sea level. [1] Moenave became a notable destination after the completion of U.S. Route 160 through Arizona. During construction, it was discovered that a large concentration of dinosaur tracks have been preserved in what was once a shallow marshland.
The Moenave was deposited in a variety of river, lake, and flood-plain environments. [10] Moenave Formation. The oldest beds of this formation belong to the Dinosaur Canyon Member, a reddish, slope-forming rock layer with thin beds of siltstone that are interbedded with mudstone and fine sandstone. [11]
Dinosaur finds in the Wingate and Moenave formations are presently almost entirely tracks. The Kayenta Formation has a diverse skeletal fauna including the theropods "Syntarsus" kayentakatae and Dilophosaurus , the prosauropod Sarahsaurus , an unnamed heterodontosaurid , and the armored dinosaurs Scelidosaurus and Scutellosaurus .
The area was part of the Kayenta Formation, about 32 km (20 mi) north of Cameron near Tuba City in the Navajo Indian Reservation. Three dinosaur skeletons were found in purplish shale, arranged in a triangle, about 9.1 m (30 ft) long at one side. The first was nearly complete, lacking only the front of the skull, parts of the pelvis, and some ...
Eubrontes in the Lower Jurassic Moenave Formation at the St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site at Johnson Farm, southwestern Utah.. Eubrontes is the name of fossilised dinosaur footprints dating from the Late Triassic and Early Jurassic.
City/town/etc. Population (2010 Census) Municipal type Incorporated 1 † Flagstaff: 65,870 City 1928 2 Sedona (mostly in Yavapai County) 10,031 City 1988 3 Tuba City: 8,611 CDP 4 Page: 7,247 City 1975 5 Doney Park: 5,395 CDP 6 Williams: 3,023 City 1901 7 Kachina Village: 2,622 CDP 8 Grand Canyon Village: 2,004 CDP 9 Kaibito: 1,522 CDP 10 ...