Where: Fremont County, Colorado (38.5° N, 105.2° W: paleocoordinates 34.4° N, 52.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• from "one of the thin sandstone lenses near the top of Cope’s Nipple (a.k.a. "Saurian Hill" of Cope), and thus very high in the Morrison Formation" (Carpenter and Galton, 2018). About 10' above C. supremus type.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "channel"; lenticular sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by O. Lucas in 1877; reposited in the YPM

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: E. D. Cope. 1888. Goniopholis in the Jurassic of Colorado. The American Naturalist 22(264):1106-1107 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 48168: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 15.03.2005

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