Also known as SD-1
Where: Meade County, South Dakota (44.5° N, 103.3° W: paleocoordinates 39.9° N, 49.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Brushy Basin Member (Morrison Formation), Tithonian (152.1 - 145.0 Ma)
• near top of formation
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: dry floodplain; gray, green claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected in 1984
Primary reference: J. R. Foster. 1996. Fossil vertebrate localities in the Morrison Formation (Upper Jurassic) of western South Dakota. In M. Morales (ed.), The Continental Jurassic. Museum of Northern Arizona Bulletin 60:255-263 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 49625: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 20.04.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Apatosaurus sp. Marsh 1877 diplodocid |