Parker's Mystery Locality, Hot Springs (SDSM V381) (Jurassic to of the United States)

Where: Fall River County, South Dakota (43.4° N, 103.4° W: paleocoordinates 38.5° N, 49.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Morrison Formation, Kimmeridgian to Kimmeridgian (157.3 - 145.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "channel"; lithology not reported

Size class: mesofossils

Collected by Parker in 1938; reposited in the SDSM

Primary reference: J. R. Foster. 1996. Sauropod dinosaurs of the Morrison Formation (Upper Jurassic), Black Hills, South Dakota and Wyoming. Contributions to Geology, University of Wyoming 31(1):1-25 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 49633: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 21.04.2005

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Saurischia - Camarasauridae
Camarasaurus sp. Cope 1877 camarasaurid
teeth; MNI = 1