Lakes Quarry 1, Morrison (YPM): Late/Upper Kimmeridgian - Early/Lower Tithonian, Colorado
collected by A. Lakes & H. C. Beckwith 1877

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Goniopholididae
Diplosaurus felise n. sp. (Marsh 1877)
Ostrom and McIntosh 1999 1 specimen
recombined as Goniopholis felix
Reptilia
Allosaurus sp. Marsh 1877
Ostrom and McIntosh 1999 1 specimen
Titanosaurus montanus n. sp. Marsh 1877
1 specimen
nomen dubium belonging to Sauropoda
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Colorado County:Jefferson
Coordinates: 39.7° North, 105.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:35.3° North, 52.2° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Altitude:1832 meters
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Late/Upper Jurassic
Key time interval:Late/Upper Kimmeridgian - Early/Lower Tithonian
Age range of interval:152.20000 - 146.30000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Morrison Member:Brushy Basin
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: upper middle part of formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:"channel"
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Museum repositories:YPM
Collectors:A. Lakes & H. C. Beckwith Collection dates:Mar 1877
Metadata
Database number:39375
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2004-05-27 06:37:33 Last modified:2023-08-24 09:59:16
Access level:the public Released:2004-05-27 06:37:33
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
7812. O. C. Marsh. 1877. Notice of a new and gigantic dinosaur. American Journal of Science and Arts 14:87-88 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

15179ETE J. R. Foster. 2003. Paleoecological analysis of the vertebrate fauna of the Morrison Formation (Upper Jurassic), Rocky Mountain region, U.S.A. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 23:1-95 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
69484 J. R. Foster and J. E. Peterson. 2016. First report of Apatosaurus (Diplodocidae: Apatosaurinae) from the Cleveland-Lloyd Quarry in the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation of Utah: abundance, distribution, paleoecology, and taphonomy of an endemic North American sauropod clade. Palaeoworld 25:431-443 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
7811 O. C. Marsh. 1877. Notice of new dinosaurian reptiles from the Jurassic formation. American Journal of Science and Arts 14:514-516 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
78169 O. C. Marsh. 1897. Vertebrate fossils of the Denver Basin. United States Geological Survey Monograph 27:473-527 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
10618 J. H. Ostrom and J. S. McIntosh. 1999. Marsh's Dinosaurs: The Collections from Como Bluff. Yale University Press, New Haven 1-388 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]