Delfs Quarry, Garden Park (CMNH) (Jurassic to of the United States)

Also known as Cleveland Museum, Cleveland Garden Park Quarry, CO-5, Oil Creek

Where: Fremont County, Colorado (38.5° N, 105.2° W: paleocoordinates 34.2° N, 52.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Salt Wash Member (Morrison Formation), Late/Upper Kimmeridgian to Late/Upper Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 145.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: crevasse splay; mudstone and sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by C. Sanderson, E. Delfs in 1954–1955, 1957

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

• The discovery was made from a tip provided by geologist, Dr. Carl Sanderson from Louisiana State University.

Primary reference: Anonymous. 1959. Haplocanthosaurus reviewed. Museum News (The Cleveland Museum of Natural History) 1(11):107-108 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 48155: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 15.03.2005

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudinata - Pleurosternidae
Glyptops plicatulus1 Cope 1877 turtle
 Loricata - Goniopholididae
Eutretauranosuchus delfsi n. gen. n. sp.1
Eutretauranosuchus delfsi n. gen. n. sp.1 Mook 1967 crocodilian
CMNH 8028 - holotype (nearly complete skull and mandibles)
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet.2 theropod
teeth
 Saurischia -
Haplocanthosaurus delfsi n. sp.3 McIntosh and Williams 1988 sauropod