Where: El Paso County, Colorado (38.9° N, 104.9° W: paleocoordinates 37.9° N, 59.2° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Lytle Member (Purgatoire Formation), Aptian to Aptian (125.0 - 100.5 Ma)
• lower part of member
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; fine, gray, cherty/siliceous sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Kerr in 1878; reposited in the YPM
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 70025: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 14.03.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Theiophytalia kerri n. gen. n. sp.
Theiophytalia kerri n. gen. n. sp. Brill and Carpenter 2007 ornithopod |