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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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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)."
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