Where: Mesa County, Colorado (39.1° N, 108.7° W: paleocoordinates 34.5° N, 54.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Salt Wash Member (Morrison Formation), Kimmeridgian (157.3 - 152.1 Ma)
• described as "upper Como Beds"
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; green, red, blue claystone and green shale
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by E. S. Riggs in 1900; reposited in the FMNH
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,
Primary reference: E. S. Riggs. 1901. The fore leg and pectoral girdle of Morosaurus, with a note on the genus Camarosaurus. Field Columbian Museum Publication 63, Geological Series 1(10):275-281 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 11925: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 19.09.2001
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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