Where: Mesa County, Colorado (38.9° N, 108.5° W: paleocoordinates 35.0° N, 55.4° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Brushy Basin Member (Morrison Formation), Late/Upper Kimmeridgian to Late/Upper Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 145.0 Ma)
• lower part of member
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: wet floodplain; green mudstone
Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils
Collected by A. Hunt
Collection methods: quarrying,
Primary reference: S. G. Lucas and J. I. Kirkland. 1998. Preliminary report on Conchostraca from the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation, western United States. Modern Geology 22:415-422 [T. Hegna/M. Pankowski/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 70031: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 14.03.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Camarasaurus sp. Cope 1877 camarasaurid | |
Allosaurus sp. Marsh 1877 allosauroid | |
Branchiopoda | |
Lioestheria "sp. A" Deperet and Mazeran 1912 clam shrimp
Lioestheria "sp. B" Deperet and Mazeran 1912 clam shrimp |