Also known as DMNH Quarry 6, CO-11
Where: Fremont County, Colorado (38.5° N, 105.2° W: paleocoordinates 34.3° N, 52.7° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Brushy Basin Member (Morrison Formation), Tithonian (152.1 - 145.0 Ma)
• upper middle part of formation, also described as "low in the Brushy Basin Member"
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: pond; lenticular, gray, carbonaceous mudstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected by B. Small in 1992; reposited in the DMNH
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,
Primary reference: J. D. Harris and K. Carpenter. 1996. A large pterodactyloid from the Morrison Formation (Late Jurassic) of Garden Park, Colorado. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Monatshefte 1996(8):473-484 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 48161: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 15.03.2005, edited by Jonathan Tennant
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Kepodactylus insperatus n. gen. n. sp.
Kepodactylus insperatus n. gen. n. sp. Harris and Carpenter 1996 pterosaur DMNH 21684 (holotype), cervical, left humerus, phalange and metatarsal. Incorrectly listed as "Kepodactylus grandis" in 12893
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"Apatosaurus excelsus" = Brontosaurus excelsus2
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"Chelonia indet." = Testudines4
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Docodon apoxys n. sp.6 Rougier et al. 2014 dodocont DMNH 42198, a nearly complete left dentary with alveoli for i1–i4, p1, and crowns of the canine, p2–p4, and m1–m7; DMNH 42196, a partial left dentary missing most of the postdentary region, preserving crowns of p2–p4 and m1–m7; DMNH 42197, a partial left dentary missing most of the postdentary region, preserving alveoli for i1–i4 and p3, roots of the canine, and crowns of p1, p2, and p4, and m1–m7
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