Fuller's 351 (SDSM V351): Tithonian, South Dakota
collected 1935

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Camarasauridae
Sauropoda indet. (Marsh 1878)
1 individual
    = Camarasaurus sp. Cope 1877
Foster 1996
SDSM 351
Reptilia
Apatosaurus sp. Marsh 1877
Foster 1996 2 individuals
1 adult, 1 juvenile
Reptilia - Theropoda
Allosaurus sp. Marsh 1877
Foster 1996 1 specimen
femur
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:South Dakota County:Lawrence
Coordinates: 44.5° North, 103.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:40.0° North, 49.7° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Jurassic Epoch: Late Jurassic
Stage: Tithonian 10 m.y. bin: Jurassic 6
Key time interval: Tithonian
Age range of interval: 149.2 - 145 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Morrison Member:Brushy Basin
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: near top of formation (within 3-4 m)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray siltstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "light gray siltstone"; "Morrison shale"
Environment:wet floodplain
Geology comments: poorly drained floodplain
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Associated major elements:some
Disassociated major elements:some
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:SDSM
Collection dates:1935
Metadata
Also known as:SD-2, St. Onge
Database number:49630
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-04-21 07:29:48 Last modified:2015-06-09 13:42:46
Access level:the public Released:2005-04-21 07:29:48
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
55474. J. D. Bump. 1939. Dinosaurs collected by the School of Mines. The Black Hills Engineer 25(4):228-229 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

42580 J. R. Foster. 1996. Fossil vertebrate localities in the Morrison Formation (Upper Jurassic) of western South Dakota. In M. Morales (ed.), The Continental Jurassic. Museum of Northern Arizona Bulletin 60:255-263 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
13295ETE J. R. Foster. 1996. Sauropod dinosaurs of the Morrison Formation (Upper Jurassic), Black Hills, South Dakota and Wyoming. Contributions to Geology, University of Wyoming 31(1):1-25 [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]
19565ETE J. R. Foster. 2005. New juvenile sauropod material from western Colorado, and the record of juvenile sauropods from the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation. In K. Carpenter and V. Tidwell (eds.), Thunder-Lizards: The Sauropodomorph Dinosaurs. Indiana University Press, Bloomington 141-153 [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]