Cary I: Kimmeridgian - Tithonian, New Mexico
collected by H. Schwartz & K. Manley
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Dinosauria
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Dinosauria indet.
Owen 1842
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| "various bones and bone fragments" | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | New Mexico | County: | Sandoval |
| Coordinates: | 35.6° North, 106.9° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 31.4° North, 54.5° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Late Jurassic |
| Stage: | Kimmeridgian - Tithonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Jurassic 5 - Jurassic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Kimmeridgian - Tithonian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 154.8 - 145 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Morrison | Member: | Brushy Basin |
| Local section: | Seismosaurus area | Local bed: | 39 m |
| Local order: | top to bottom | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | green claystone |
| Secondary lithology: | "limestone" |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "an olive claystone...thin, discontinuous limestone outcrops near and stratigraphically just above CI also contain broken fragments of dinosaur bone." | |
| Environment: | "floodplain" |
| Geology comments: "floodplain deposits that interfinger with pond or lake-margin sediments" | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Fragmentation: | frequent |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (float),surface (in situ),observed (not collected) |
| Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
| Collectors: | H. Schwartz & K. Manley |
Metadata
| Also known as: | CI | ||
| Database number: | 119024 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2011-10-20 08:04:56 | Last modified: | 2011-10-19 16:04:56 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2011-10-20 08:04:56 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 38241. | H. L. Schwartz and K. Manley. 1992. Geology and stratigraphy of the Seismosaurus locality, Sandoval County, New Mexico. New Mexico Geology 14(2):25-30 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |