Also known as Curecanti, North Beach II
Where: Gunnison County, Colorado (38.5° N, 107.4° W: paleocoordinates 33.7° N, 53.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Brushy Basin Member (Morrison Formation), Kimmeridgian (157.3 - 152.1 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: crevasse splay; intraclastic, conglomeratic sandstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected by K. Trujillo in 2001–2002
Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),
Primary reference: A. L. Koch, F. Frost, and K. Trujillo. 2006. Palaeontological discoveries at Curecanti National Recreation Area and Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation, Colorado. In J. R. Foster & S. G. Lucas (ed.), Paleontology and Geology of the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 36:35-38 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 154924: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Jonathan Tennant on 20.03.2014, edited by Matthew Carrano
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Dinosauria indet. Owen 1842 dinosaur | |
Stegosaurus sp. Marsh 1877 ornithischian | |
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Theropoda indet. Marsh 1881 theropod
Allosaurus sp. Marsh 1877 allosauroid CURE 009, partial dorsal vertebra centrum; CURE 010, nearly complete dorsal vertebra centrum
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Camarasaurus sp. Cope 1877 camarasaurid CURE 003, CURE 011, and CURE 012, tooth crowns preserved in cross-section
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Apatosaurus sp. Marsh 1877 diplodocid
Diplodocinae indet. Janensch 1929 diplodocine Diplodocus or Barosaurus;CURE 001, centrum of caudal vertebra; CURE 002, centrum of mid-caudal vertebra
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