Also known as CO-48

Where: Gunnison County, Colorado (38.5° N, 106.8° W: paleocoordinates 33.7° N, 52.9° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Salt Wash Member (Morrison Formation), Kimmeridgian (157.3 - 152.1 Ma)

• lower part of member

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: pond; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by K. Snyder in 1970

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ), mechanical,

Primary reference: B. L. Bartleson and J. A. Jensen. 1988. The oldest (?) Morrison Formation dinosaur, Gunnison, Colorado. Rocky Mountain Geologist 3:129-139 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 49621: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 20.04.2005

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