List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
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Camptosaurus sp.
Marsh 1885
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1 individual | |||||||||
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= Theiophytalia kerri n. gen., n. sp.
Brill and Carpenter 2007
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Brill and Carpenter 2007 | |||||||||
| YPM 1887 | ||||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Colorado | County: | El Paso |
| Coordinates: | 38.9° North, 104.9° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 37.9° North, 59.2° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Purgatoire | Member: | Lytle | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: lower part of member | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | very fine,fine,gray cherty/siliceous sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "a light gray sandstone with fine-grain to very fine-grain size. The gains are subrounded with few subangular grains. It is rich in quartz and chert" | |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Degree of concentration: | dispersed |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
| Associated major elements: | some |
| Fragmentation: | occasional |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,mechanical,field collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis | ||
| Museum repositories: | YPM | ||
| Collectors: | Kerr | Collection dates: | 1878 |
Metadata
| Database number: | 70025 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2007-03-14 12:39:29 | Last modified: | 2014-03-27 13:10:52 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2007-03-14 12:39:29 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 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] |
Secondary references:
| 24822 | ETE | K. Brill and K. Carpenter. 2007. A description of a new ornithopod from the Lytle Member of the Purgatoire Formation (Lower Cretaceous) and a reassessment of the skull of Camptosaurus. In K. Carpenter (ed.), Horns and Beaks: Ceratopsian and Ornithopod Dinosaurs 49-67 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 50540 | K. Carpenter and Y. Ishida. 2010. Early and "middle" Cretaceous iguanodonts in time and space. Journal of Iberian Geology 36(2):145-164 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |