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

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