Where: Emery County, Utah (38.8° N, 111.2° W: paleocoordinates 35.2° N, 57.7° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Brushy Basin Member (Morrison Formation), Kimmeridgian to Kimmeridgian (157.3 - 145.0 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; shelly/skeletal limestone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: replaced with silica
Collected by P. Shrum
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,
• Found by Paul Shrum of Kanab, Utah
Primary reference: W. L. Stokes. 1964. Fossilized stomach contents of a sauropod dinosaur. Science 143:576-577 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 58551: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 13.02.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Plantae indet. Haeckel 1866 | |
Reptilia | |
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Sauropoda indet. sauropod |