Lakes Quarry 8, Morrison (YPM): Kimmeridgian - Tithonian, Colorado
collected by A. Lakes 1877
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
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Diplodocus sp.
Marsh 1878
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Foster 2003 | 1 individual | |||||
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Apatosaurus ajax
Marsh 1877
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1 individual | ||||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Colorado | County: | Jefferson |
| Coordinates: | 39.7° North, 105.2° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 35.1° North, 52.0° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||||
| Altitude: | 1832 meters | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Late/Upper Jurassic |
| Key time interval: | Kimmeridgian - Tithonian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 154.80000 - 145.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Morrison | Member: | Brushy Basin |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | "channel" |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Degree of concentration: | dispersed |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
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 | Collection dates: | 1877 |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Dinosaur Ridge | ||
| Database number: | 39376 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2004-05-27 06:43:30 | Last modified: | 2019-07-19 15:37:46 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-05-27 06:43:30 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 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] |
Secondary references:
| 15179 | ETE | 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] | |
| 19042 | ETE | J. F. Hubert and P. T. Panish. 2000. Sedimentology and diagenesis of the dinosaur bones exposed at Dinosaur Ridge along Alameda Parkway in the Morrison Formation (Upper Jurassic), Morrison, Colorado. The Mountain Geologist 37(2):73-90 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |