Also known as CO-76
Where: Fremont County, Colorado (38.5° N, 105.2° W: paleocoordinates 34.0° N, 52.2° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Salt Wash Member (Morrison Formation), Kimmeridgian to Kimmeridgian (157.3 - 145.0 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Lucas; 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 48158: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 15.03.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Amphicoelias latus n. sp." = Camarasaurus supremus
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