Felch Quarry 2, Garden Park (YPM): Kimmeridgian - Tithonian, Colorado
collected by M. P. Felch 1883–1888

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
Allosaurus sp. Marsh 1877
Ostrom and McIntosh 1999 1 individual
? Camarasaurus sp. Cope 1877
Ostrom and McIntosh 1999 1 individual
    = Diplodocus longus Marsh 1878
Evanoff and Carpenter 1998
"Laosaurus" sp. Marsh 1878
Evanoff and Carpenter 1998 1 individual
nomen dubium belonging to Ornithopoda
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Colorado County:Fremont
Coordinates: 38.5° North, 105.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:34.0° North, 52.3° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Altitude:1861 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
Stratigraphy comments: in sandbody 4, upper interval of Morrison, 47.9 m above J5 unconformity (base of Morrison), below Felch Quarry 1
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:lenticular,current ripples,white,yellow sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:"channel"
Geology comments: channel top-point bar in moderately drained floodplain
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Abundance in sediment:common
Associated major elements:some
Disassociated major elements:some
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Museum repositories:YPM
Collectors:M. P. Felch Collection dates:1883–1888
Collection method comments: 1888, Marsh
Metadata
Also known as:CO-4
Database number:39377
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2004-05-27 06:49:08 Last modified:2021-08-24 13:14:50
Access level:the public Released:2004-05-27 06:49:08
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
5669.ETE 1424P. Dodson, A. K. Behrensmeyer, R. T. Bakker and J. S. McIntosh. 1980. Taphonomy and paleoecology of Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation. Paleobiology 6:208-232 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

12893ETE K. Carpenter. 1998. Vertebrate biostratigraphy of the Morrison Formation near Cañon City, Colorado. Modern Geology 23:407-426 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
77784 K. Carpenter. 1999. The Cañon City dinosaur sites of Marsh and Cope. Scoiety of Vertebrate Paleontology Annual Meeting 1-14 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
12896ETE E. Evanoff and K. Carpenter. 1998. History, sedimentology, and taphonomy of Felch Quarry 1 and associated sandbodies, Morrison Formation, Garden Park, Colorado. Modern Geology 23:145-169 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
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]
15180ETE P. E. Monaco. 1998. A short history of dinosaur collecting in the Garden Park Fossil Area, Cañon City, Colorado. Modern Geology 23(1-4):465-480 [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]
13281ETE C. E. Turner and F. Peterson. 1999. Biostratigraphy of dinosaurs in the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation of the Western Interior, U.S.A. In D. D. Gillette (ed.), Vertebrate Paleontology in Utah, Utah Geological Survey Miscellaneous Publication 99-1:77-114 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]