Lakes Quarry 8, Morrison (YPM) (Jurassic to of the United States)

Also known as Dinosaur Ridge

Where: Jefferson County, Colorado (39.7° N, 105.2° W: paleocoordinates 35.1° N, 52.0° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Brushy Basin Member (Morrison Formation), Kimmeridgian to Kimmeridgian (157.3 - 145.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "channel"; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by A. Lakes in 1877; reposited in the YPM

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: J. H. Ostrom and J. S. McIntosh. 1999. Marsh's Dinosaurs: The Collections from Como Bluff. Yale University Press, New Haven 1-388 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 39376: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 27.05.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Saurischia - Diplodocidae
Apatosaurus ajax Marsh 1877 diplodocid
Diplodocus sp. Marsh 1878 diplodocine