Agate Hill, FPA: Kimmeridgian - Tithonian, Colorado
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Gastropoda
- Viviparidae
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"Viviparus" reesidei
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Reptilia
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Sphenodontia indet.
(Jaekel 1910)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| skull (from mudstone) | ||||||||||
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Amblypteriformes
- Coccocephalichthyidae
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Hulettia hawsi
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| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Colorado | County: | Mesa |
| Coordinates: | 39.1° North, 108.8° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 35.2° North, 55.4° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||||
| Altitude: | 4503 meters | ||||
| 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 | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: overlies "channel 9" | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | "limestone" |
| Secondary lithology: | mudstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | pond |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (float),field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Fruita, MWC #3, DMNH 303, USGS MES.LOC.20324 | ||
| Database number: | 192456 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2018-04-06 16:01:21 | Last modified: | 2018-04-06 16:01:21 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2018-04-06 16:01:21 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 65150. | J. I. Kirkland. 2006. Fruita Paleontological Area (Upper Jurassic, Morrison Formation), western Colorado: an example of terrestrial taphofacies analysis. In J. R. Foster & S. G. Lucas (ed.), Paleontology and Geology of the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 36:67-95 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |