Also known as Saurian Hill
Where: Fremont County, Colorado (38.5° N, 105.2° W: paleocoordinates 34.0° N, 52.3° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• 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: dry floodplain; brown, red mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
• bite marks on AMNH 5760
Collected by O. Lucas in 1877; reposited in the AMNH
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,
Primary reference: E. D. Cope. 1877. On a carnivorous dinosaurian from the Dakota Beds of Colorado. Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey 3(4):805-806 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 48127: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 14.03.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
"Laelaps trihedrodon n. sp." = Allosaurus fragilis
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Camarasaurus supremus n. gen. n. sp.
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