Cope Quarry XII (Jurassic of the United States)

Also known as CO-71; Garden Park

Where: Fremont County, Colorado (38.6° N, 105.2° W: paleocoordinates 34.5° N, 52.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Morrison Formation, Early/Lower Tithonian (150.8 - 145.0 Ma)

• Brushy Basin Member ?

•C5 systems tract, 150.44–149.21 Ma, lower Tithonian, Upper Jurassic (Mannion et al. 2021)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by A. Ripley in 1877; reposited in the AMNH

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: E. D. Cope. 1877. On Amphicoelias, a genus of Saurians from the Dakota epoch of Colorado. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 17:242-246 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 48154: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 15.03.2005, edited by Philip Mannion

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Saurischia -
Eusauropoda indet. Upchurch 1995 sauropod
AMNH FARB 5764a (ulna) [said to be from this locality by Osborn and Mook 1921, but this cannot be confirmed - see McIntosh 1998]
 Saurischia - Camarasauridae
aff. Camarasaurus sp. Cope 1877 camarasaurid
AMNH FARB 5764 (tooth) and 5764a (scapulocoracoid) [said to be from this locality by Osborn and Mook 1921, but this cannot be confirmed - see McIntosh 1998]
 Saurischia -
Diplodocoidea indet. Upchurch 1995 sauropod
AMNH FARB 5761 (humerus)
Amphicoelias altus n. gen. n. sp. Cope 1877 sauropod
AMNH FARB 5764 - holotype