Dinosaur Beach (CURE) (Jurassic of the United States)

Also known as Curecanti, South Beach

Where: Gunnison County, Colorado (38.5° N, 107.4° W: paleocoordinates 34.6° N, 54.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Brushy Basin Member (Morrison Formation), Tithonian (152.1 - 145.0 Ma)

• lower than Dino Cove site

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: crevasse splay; intraclastic, conglomeratic sandstone

• conglomeratic sandstone that is poorly-sorted, containing very coarse sand- to pebble-sized red and green semi-angular chert and mud clasts in a fine sand matrix

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 154925: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Jonathan Tennant on 20.03.2014, edited by Matthew Carrano

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines -
Testudines indet. Batsch 1788 turtle
 Loricata - Goniopholididae
Goniopholididae indet. Cope 1875 crocodilian
CURE 006, ulna; cf. Goniopholis or Eutretauranosuchus)
 Ornithischia - Stegosauridae
? Stegosaurus sp. Marsh 1877 ornithischian
caudal vertebra
 Theropoda -
Allosaurus sp. Marsh 1877 allosauroid
CURE 007, partial phalanx; CURE 008, partial manual claw
 Saurischia - Camarasauridae
Camarasaurus sp. Cope 1877 camarasaurid