Egg Gulch, Garden Park (Jurassic of the United States)

Also known as CO-72

Where: Fremont County, Colorado (38.5° N, 105.2° W: paleocoordinates 33.7° N, 51.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Salt Wash Member (Morrison Formation), Early/Lower Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 150.8 Ma)

• age based on charophytes

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; mudstone and sandstone

• lacustrine setting in a poorly drained floodplain environment

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected in 1991

Collection methods: bulk, quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ), mechanical, sieve,

Primary reference: K. Alf and K. Carpenter. 1993. Preliminary results of a study of an eggshell site in the Morrison Formation of Colorado. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 13(3, suppl.):24A [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 48156: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 15.03.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Dinosauria -
? Dinosauria indet.1 dinosaur
second egg type, "dinosaurian or perhaps even avian"
 Ornithischia - Dryosauridae
? Dryosaurus sp.2 Marsh 1894 ornithopod
  - Prismatoolithidae
"Prismatoolithus coloradensis" = Preprismatoolithus coloradensis2
"Prismatoolithus coloradensis" = Preprismatoolithus coloradensis2 Hirsch 1994 dinosaur
ornithopod eggs
 Loricata -
Crocodylia indet.3 crocodilian
unclassified
  -
Charophyta indet.1 Migula 1890