Where: Carbon County, Wyoming (42.0° N, 106.4° W: paleocoordinates 37.6° N, 52.5° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Morrison Formation, Kimmeridgian to Kimmeridgian (157.3 - 145.0 Ma)
• upper third of formation
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,
Primary reference: J. R. Foster. 2003. Paleoecological analysis of the vertebrate fauna of the Morrison Formation (Upper Jurassic), Rocky Mountain region, U.S.A. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 23:1-95 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 57893: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 05.01.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Camarasaurus sp. Cope 1877 camarasaurid |