Cary I (Jurassic to of the United States)

Also known as CI

Where: Sandoval County, New Mexico (35.6° N, 106.9° W: paleocoordinates 31.4° N, 54.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; green claystone and limestone

• "floodplain deposits that interfinger with pond or lake-margin sediments"
• "an olive claystone...thin, discontinuous limestone outcrops near and stratigraphically just above CI also contain broken fragments of dinosaur bone."

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by H. Schwartz & K. Manley

Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),

Primary reference: H. L. Schwartz and K. Manley. 1992. Geology and stratigraphy of the Seismosaurus locality, Sandoval County, New Mexico. New Mexico Geology 14(2):25-30 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 119024: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 20.10.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

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Reptilia
 Dinosauria -
Dinosauria indet.
Dinosauria indet. dinosaur
"various bones and bone fragments"