Also known as CO-4
Where: Fremont County, Colorado (38.5° N, 105.2° W: paleocoordinates 34.0° N, 52.3° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Brushy Basin Member (Morrison Formation), Kimmeridgian to Kimmeridgian (157.3 - 145.0 Ma)
• in sandbody 4, upper interval of Morrison, 47.9 m above J5 unconformity (base of Morrison), below Felch Quarry 1
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: "channel"; lenticular, white, yellow sandstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected by M. P. Felch in 1883–1888; reposited in the YPM
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,
• 1888, Marsh
Primary reference: P. Dodson, A. K. Behrensmeyer, R. T. Bakker and J. S. McIntosh. 1980. Taphonomy and paleoecology of Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation. Paleobiology 6:208-232 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 39377: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 27.05.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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