Also known as Fruita, LACM #5574, Little Blue

Where: Mesa County, Colorado (39.1° N, 108.8° W: paleocoordinates 35.5° N, 55.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• Trujillo et al. 2015: Recalibrated 40Ar/39Ar ages from the Morrison Formation suggest Brushy Basin member is early Tithonian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: pond; blue siliciclastic sediments

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by J. Clark in 1975, 1978–1979

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: J. R. Foster. 2003. Paleoecological analysis of the vertebrate fauna of the Morrison Formation (Upper Jurassic), Rocky Mountain region, U.S.A. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 23:1-95 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 22708: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 29.05.2001, edited by Philip Mannion

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