Kessler's Quarry, Garden Park (Jurassic to of the United States)

Also known as DMNH Quarry 2, CO-7

Where: Fremont County, Colorado (38.5° N, 105.2° W: paleocoordinates 34.2° N, 52.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Salt Wash Member (Morrison Formation), Late/Upper Kimmeridgian to Late/Upper Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 145.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: wet floodplain; lithified, gray, green claystone

• "gray-green claystone"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by F. C. Kessler, R. Landberg, H. Moore in 1937; reposited in the DMNH

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

• "...excavated by members of the CaƱon City Geology Club, o which Mr. Kessler is Secretary..."

Primary reference: P. Reinheimer. 1938. Department of Vertebrate Paleontology. Annual Report of the Colorado Museum of Natural History for the Year 1937 27-29 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 48160: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 15.03.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet.2 Marsh 1881 theropod
"small theropod remains"
Allosaurus sp.1 Marsh 1877 allosauroid
 Ornithischia - Stegosauridae
Stegosaurus stenops1 Marsh 1887 ornithischian
 Ornithischia -
Ornithopoda indet.1 ornithopod
 Loricata - Goniopholididae
Goniopholis sp.1 Owen 1842 crocodilian
 Testudinata - Pleurosternidae
Glyptops plicatulus1 Cope 1877 turtle