Where: Meade County, South Dakota (44.5° N, 103.3° W: paleocoordinates 39.9° N, 49.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Morrison Formation, Tithonian (152.1 - 145.0 Ma)
• high in formation based on geographic position
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected in 1899; reposited in the USNM
Primary reference: J. R. Foster. 1996. Fossil vertebrate localities in the Morrison Formation (Upper Jurassic) of western South Dakota. In M. Morales (ed.), The Continental Jurassic. Museum of Northern Arizona Bulletin 60:255-263 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 132243: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 10.08.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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