Also known as CO-71; Garden Park
Where: Fremont County, Colorado (38.6° N, 105.2° W: paleocoordinates 34.5° N, 52.9° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Morrison Formation, Early/Lower Tithonian (150.8 - 145.0 Ma)
• Brushy Basin Member ?
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•C5 systems tract, 150.44–149.21 Ma, lower Tithonian, Upper Jurassic (Mannion et al. 2021)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by A. Ripley in 1877; reposited in the AMNH
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,
Primary reference: E. D. Cope. 1877. On Amphicoelias, a genus of Saurians from the Dakota epoch of Colorado. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 17:242-246 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 48154: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 15.03.2005, edited by Philip Mannion
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Eusauropoda indet. Upchurch 1995 sauropod AMNH FARB 5764a (ulna) [said to be from this locality by Osborn and Mook 1921, but this cannot be confirmed - see McIntosh 1998]
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aff. Camarasaurus sp. Cope 1877 camarasaurid AMNH FARB 5764 (tooth) and 5764a (scapulocoracoid) [said to be from this locality by Osborn and Mook 1921, but this cannot be confirmed - see McIntosh 1998]
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Diplodocoidea indet., Amphicoelias altus n. gen. n. sp.
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