Lower Slide Lake, Camp Davis (UMMP) (Jurassic to of the United States)

Where: Teton County, Wyoming (43.6° N, 110.5° W: paleocoordinates 39.8° N, 55.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• "at the top of the Jurassic section of the base of the Cretaceous section", i.e. upper Morrison Fm.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: wet floodplain; lenticular conglomerate and gray, green, silty sandstone

• "deposition by a shifting stream that flowed across a swampy lowland area"
• "a lenticular conglomerate...associated with alternating beds of sandstones and greenish-gray silty sandstones and shales. A few layers are rich in carbonaceous plant material."

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with limonite

Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ), peel or thin section,

Primary reference: K. G. Smith and D. A. Bradley. 1952. Radioactive dinosaur bones from the Camp Davis region, western Wyoming. Papers of the Michigan Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters 37:257-263 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taphonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 55206: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 28.09.2005

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Reptilia
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Dinosauria indet.