Also known as Fruita, CO-34, Nesting Site, MWC #5

Where: Mesa County, Colorado (39.1° N, 108.8° W: paleocoordinates 35.3° N, 55.6° 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)

• 3.6 m below the local "clay change" in the lower Brushy Basin, above the top of the Salt Wash Member.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; bioturbated, paleosol/pedogenic, concretionary, gray, carbonaceous mudstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: concretion, replaced with calcite

Collected by J. Kirkland in 1991; reposited in the LACM

Collection methods: quarrying,

Primary reference: D. J. Chure, J. I. Kirkland, and R. D. Scheetz. 1993. Embryos, hatchlings, juveniles & adults of the ornithopod dinosaur Dryosaurus from the Late Jurassic Morrison Formation (MF). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 13(3, suppl.):29A-30A [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 53022: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 31.08.2005, edited by Matthew Carrano

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