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 indet. Marsh 1881 theropod | |
Ornithopoda indet. Marsh 1881 ornithopod | |
Crocodylia indet. Owen 1842 crocodilian | |
Eilenodon sp. Rasmussen and Callison 1981 lepidosaur | |
Glyptops sp. Marsh 1890 turtle |