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 | |
Diplodocus sp. Marsh 1878 diplodocine
Apatosaurus ajax Marsh 1877 diplodocid |