Tony's Bone Bed (DMNS 2182) (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as Tony's Bonebed

Where: Grand County, Utah (38.8° N, 109.5° W: paleocoordinates 39.1° N, 60.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Poison Strip Sandstone Member (Cedar Mountain Formation), Aptian (125.0 - 113.0 Ma)

• 3.75 m below top of member

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•Ludvigson et al. 2010: U-Pb dates from near the base were approximately 119.4 +/- 2.6Ma

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; gray limestone and lenticular, green mudstone

• "a meandering river complex" with lakes
• "medium- to corase-grained sandstone, and contains lenses of greenish mudstone...The bones occur in the interface between gray lacustrine limestone and overlying greenish mudstone. Evidence of pedogenesis (e.g., red-green mottling, calcareous nodules, possible rhizoliths) occurs in the upper part of the mudstone."

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by T. DiCroce in 1998; reposited in the DMNH

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: V. Tidwell, K. Carpenter, and S. Meyer. 2001. A new titanosauriform (Sauropoda) from the Poison Strip Member of the Cedar Mountain Formation (Lower Cretaceous), Utah. In D. H. Tanke & K. Carpenter (ed.), Mesozoic Vertebrate Life: New Research Inspired by the Paleontology of Philip J. Currie 139-165 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 51919: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 01.07.2005

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet.
Theropoda indet. Marsh 1881 theropod
"possibly Utahraptor ostrommaysorum"
 Ornithischia -
Planicoxa venenica n. gen. n. sp.
Planicoxa venenica n. gen. n. sp. DiCroce and Carpenter 2001 ornithopod
DMNH 42504
 Saurischia - Brachiosauridae
Venenosaurus dicrocei n. gen. n. sp.
Venenosaurus dicrocei n. gen. n. sp. Tidwell et al. 2001 brachiosaurid
DMNH 40932