Also known as SD-5
Where: Meade County, South Dakota (44.2° N, 103.3° W: paleocoordinates 39.3° N, 49.1° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Morrison Formation, Kimmeridgian to Kimmeridgian (157.3 - 145.0 Ma)
• Zone 4
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: wet floodplain; brown, gray, green, red, silty claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected in 1993; reposited in the SDSM
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,
Primary reference: J. R. Foster. 1996. Fossil vertebrate localities in the Morrison Formation (Upper Jurassic) of western South Dakota. In M. Morales (ed.), The Continental Jurassic. Museum of Northern Arizona Bulletin 60:255-263 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 57904: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 05.01.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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