Green Acres (general) (Jurassic of the United States)

Also known as Garden Park

Where: Fremont County, Colorado (38.5° N, 105.2° W: paleocoordinates 34.3° N, 52.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Brushy Basin Member (Morrison Formation), Tithonian (152.1 - 145.0 Ma)

• Trujillo et al. 2015: Recalibrated 40Ar/39Ar ages from the Morrison Formation suggest Brushy Basin member is early Tithonian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: surface (float),

Primary reference: J. R. Foster. 2003. Paleoecological analysis of the vertebrate fauna of the Morrison Formation (Upper Jurassic), Rocky Mountain region, U.S.A. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 23:1-95 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 177145: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 21.03.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet. Marsh 1881 theropod
 Ornithischia -
Ornithopoda indet. Marsh 1881 ornithopod
 Crocodylia -
Crocodylia indet. Owen 1842 crocodilian
 Eosuchia - Sphenodontidae
Eilenodon sp. Rasmussen and Callison 1981 lepidosaur
 Testudinata - Pleurosternidae
Glyptops sp. Marsh 1890 turtle