head of Stellaria Creek (Jurassic to of the United States)

Where: Gunnison County, Colorado (44.9° N, 110.9° W: paleocoordinates 41.2° N, 55.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Morrison Formation, Kimmeridgian to Kimmeridgian (157.3 - 145.0 Ma)

• uppermost part of formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by E. T. Ruppel in 1971

Collection methods: surface (float),

Primary reference: E. T. Ruppel. 1972. Geology of pre-Tertiary rocks in the northern part of Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 729-A:A1-A66 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 70028: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 14.03.2007

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Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Tracheophyta indet.
Tracheophyta indet.
fossil wood
Reptilia
 Dinosauria -
Dinosauria indet.
Dinosauria indet. dinosaur
"fragments from the end of a leg bone of a moder- ately large dinosaur, but the bone pieces were too fragmentary to permit more positive identification (G. Edward Lewis, written commun., 1967)."