Where: Fremont County, Utah (40.5° N, 109.2° W: paleocoordinates 36.5° N, 55.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Brushy Basin Member (Morrison Formation), Kimmeridgian to Kimmeridgian (157.3 - 145.0 Ma)
• upper part of member
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collection methods: bulk, sieve,
Primary reference: E. S. Bray and K. F. Hirsch. 1998. Eggshell from the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation. Modern Geology 23(1-4):219-240 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 53035: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 01.09.2005, edited by Matthew Carrano, Mark Uhen and Terri Cleary
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia | |
Mammalia indet. Linnaeus 1758 mammal | |
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Dryolestidae indet.2, Amblotherium sp.2, Amblotherium debilis2, Amblotherium gracilis2, Herpetairus arcuatus2, Euthlastus cordiformis2, Dryolestes priscus2
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Triconolestes curvicuspis n. gen. n. sp.2
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Reptilia | |
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Ornithischia indet. ornithischian | |
Theropoda indet. Marsh 1881 theropod | |
Sphenodontidae indet. Cope 1871 lepidosaur | |
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Schillerosaurus utahensis n. gen. n. sp.3
Schillerosaurus utahensis n. gen. n. sp.3 Nydam et al. 2013 squamates DNM 14720 (holotype), part and counterpart of dissociated skeleton
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Amphibia | |
Caudata indet. salamander |