Emery County sauropod site (Jurassic to of the United States)

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

• "silicified 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
 Theropoda -
Allosaurus sp. Marsh 1877 allosauroid
tooth
 Saurischia -