Also known as Fruita, Ceratosaurus Site, LACM #5579, MWC #2.01.86, CO-33
Where: Mesa County, Colorado (39.1° N, 108.8° W: paleocoordinates 35.2° N, 55.4° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Brushy Basin Member (Morrison Formation), Kimmeridgian to Kimmeridgian (157.3 - 145.0 Ma)
• lower part of member, above the local "clay change"
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: crevasse splay; sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by L. Eriksen in 1975–1976
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ), mechanical,
• discovered by Lance Eriksen, Museum of Western Colorado
Primary reference: Anonymous. 1977. The Fruita Paleontological Report 1-82 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 49652: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 21.04.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
"Ceratosaurus magnicornis n. sp." = Ceratosaurus nasicornis
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