Brush Creek, Yale College Scientific Party (Jurassic to of the United States)

Where: Uintah County, Utah (40.5° N, 109.4° W: paleocoordinates 36.6° N, 55.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Brushy Basin Member (Morrison Formation), Kimmeridgian to Kimmeridgian (157.3 - 145.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by O. C. Marsh in 1870; reposited in the YPM

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: O. C. Marsh. 1871. On the geology of the eastern Uintah Mountains. The American Journal of Science and Arts, series 3 1:191-198 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 49595: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 20.04.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines -
Testudines indet. Batsch 1788 turtle
"turtles"
 Testudinata - Pleurosternidae
Glyptops sp.1 Marsh 1890 turtle
 Theropoda -
Allosaurus sp.2 Marsh 1877 allosauroid