Where: Moffat County, Colorado (40.3° N, 108.7° W: paleocoordinates 36.3° N, 55.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Morrison Formation, Kimmeridgian to Kimmeridgian (157.3 - 145.0 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: wet floodplain; mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
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 231618: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 24.08.2023
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes | |
Ceratodus sp. Agassiz 1838 lungfish | |
Reptilia | |
Othnielia sp. Galton 1977 ornithopod | |
Diplodocidae indet. diplodocid | |
Camarasaurus sp. Cope 1877 camarasaurid | |
Theropoda indet. Marsh 1881 theropod | |
Crocodylia indet. Owen 1842 crocodilian |