Where: Rio Blanco County, Colorado (39.9° N, 108.7° W: paleocoordinates 47.3° N, 80.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Mesaverde Group, Campanian to Campanian (83.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• near base of Mesaverde Group, 100 ft. above Sego Mbr. of Price River Fm.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial; siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by E. Barnard in 1987, 1990
Collection methods: surface (float),
Primary reference: W. E. Miller, J. L. Baer, K. L. Stadtman and B. B. Britt. 1991. The Dry Mesa Dinosaur Quarry, Mesa County, Colorado. In W. R. Averett (ed.), Guidebook for Dinosaur Quarries and Tracksites Tour, Western Colorado and Eastern Utah 31-46 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 189580: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 02.11.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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