Also known as CO-17
Where: Moffat County, Colorado (40.3° N, 108.6° W: paleocoordinates 36.3° N, 54.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Morrison Formation, Kimmeridgian to Kimmeridgian (157.3 - 145.0 Ma)
• lower middle part of formation
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; gray, silty claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by I. Wood in 1979–1985; reposited in the DMNH
Primary reference: C. E. Turner and F. Peterson. 1999. Biostratigraphy of dinosaurs in the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation of the Western Interior, U.S.A. In D. D. Gillette (ed.), Vertebrate Paleontology in Utah, Utah Geological Survey Miscellaneous Publication 99-1:77-114 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 231533: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 23.08.2023
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Dorsetisaurus sp. Hoffstetter 1967 squamates | |
Lacertilia indet. lizard | |
Dinochelys sp. Gaffney 1979 turtle
Glyptops sp. Marsh 1890 turtle | |
"Chelonia indet." = Testudines
"Chelonia indet." = Testudines Batsch 1788 turtle | |
Goniopholis sp. Owen 1842 crocodilian | |
Crocodylia indet. Owen 1842 crocodilian | |
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Camarasaurus sp. Cope 1877 camarasaurid | |
Diplodocidae indet. diplodocid | |
Opisthias sp. Gilmore 1909 lepidosaur | |
Mammalia | |
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Amphibia | |
Anura indet. Fischer von Waldheim 1813 frog | |
Caudata indet. Scopoli 1777 salamander | |
Chondrostei | |
Ceratodus sp. Agassiz 1838 lungfish | |
Actinopterygii | |
Actinopterygii indet. ray-finned fish |