Also known as Fruita, LACM #5573, CO-33
Where: Mesa County, Colorado (39.2° N, 108.8° W: paleocoordinates 35.5° N, 55.9° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Brushy Basin Member (Morrison Formation), Tithonian (152.1 - 145.0 Ma)
• above the local "clay change" in the lower part of the member
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: pond; nodular claystone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils
Collected by G. Callison & party in the 1980s
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: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 58811: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 24.02.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Diplodocidae indet. diplodocid | |
Theropoda indet. Marsh 1881 theropod | |
Goniopholis sp. Owen 1842 crocodilian | |
Sphenodontia indet. lepidosaur | |
Opisthias sp. Gilmore 1909 lepidosaur | |
Lacertilia indet. lizard | |
Saurillodon sp. Estes 1983 squamates
Paramacellodus sp. Hoffstetter 1967 squamates | |
Parviraptor sp. Evans 1994 squamates
Anguimorpha indet. squamates | |
Mammalia | |
Triconodonta indet. Osborn 1888 triconodont | |
Gnathostomata | |
Actinopterygii indet. ray-finned fish | |
Insecta | |
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Malacostraca | |
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