Cope Quarry I, Cope's Nipple: Kimmeridgian - Tithonian, Colorado
collected by O. Lucas 1877
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
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Laelaps trihedrodon n. sp.
Cope 1877
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| synonym of Allosaurus fragilis | ||||||||||
| AMNH (lost) | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Camarasauridae
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Camarasaurus supremus n. gen., n. sp.
Cope 1877
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Cope 1877 | 1 individual | ||||||||
| AMNH 5760 (8 measurements) | ||||||||||
| 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: | estimated from map | ||||
| 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: | brown,red mudstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | dry floodplain |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Degree of concentration: | dispersed |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
| Abundance in sediment: | few |
| Associated major elements: | some |
| Fragmentation: | occasional |
| Feeding/predation traces: | tooth marks |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,mechanical,field collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
| Museum repositories: | AMNH | ||
| Collectors: | O. Lucas | Collection dates: | Mar 1877 |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Saurian Hill | ||
| Database number: | 48127 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2005-03-14 14:41:40 | Last modified: | 2023-11-21 16:32:51 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-03-14 14:41:40 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 15653. | ETE | E. D. Cope. 1877. On a carnivorous dinosaurian from the Dakota Beds of Colorado. Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey 3(4):805-806 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 13268 | ETE | J. J. Ague, K. Carpenter, and J. H. Ostrom. 1995. Solution to the Hallopus enigma?. American Journal of Science 295:1-17 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 12893 | ETE | K. Carpenter. 1998. Vertebrate biostratigraphy of the Morrison Formation near Cañon City, Colorado. Modern Geology 23:407-426 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 7239 | 5% 52160 | E. D. Cope. 1877. On a gigantic saurian from the Dakota epoch of Colorado. Paleontological Bulletin 25:5-10 [J. Alroy/R. Whatley/M. Carrano] |
| 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] |
| 52132 | T. Ikejiri. 2005. Distribution and biochronology of Camarasaurus (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) from the Jurassic Morrison Formation of the Rocky Mountain region. In S. G. Lucas, K. E. Ziegler, V. W. Lueth, D. E. Owen (eds.), New Mexico Geological Society, 56th Field Conference, Geology of the Chama Basin. New Mexico Geological Society Guidebook 56:367-379 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/P. Wagner] | |
| 86556 | R. Lei, E. Tschopp, C. Hendrickx, M. J. Wedel, M. A. Norell and D. W. E. Hone. 2023. Bite and tooth marks on sauropod dinosaurs from the Morrison Formation. PeerJ 11:16327:1-34 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 54331 | R. S. Lull. 1926. Early fossil hunting in the Rocky Mountains. Natural History 26(5):455-461 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 69430 | R. L. Moodie. 1930. The Dinosaurs of Wyoming 22:1-119 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 17158 | ETE | H. F. Osborn and C. C. Mook. 1919. Characters and restoration of the sauropod genus Camarasaurus Cope. From type material in the Cope collection in the American Museum of Natural History. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 58(6):386-396 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 13078 | ETE | H. F. Osborn and C. C. Mook. 1919. Camarasaurus, Amphicoelias, and other sauropods of Cope. Bulletin of the Geological Society of America 30:379-388 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 15490 | ETE | R. Steel. 1970. Part 14. Saurischia. Handbuch der Paläoherpetologie/Encyclopedia of Paleoherpetology. Gustav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart 1-87 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 61465 | S. W. Williston. 1915. The first discovery of dinosaurs in the west. In W. D. Matthew (ed.), Dinosaurs. American Museum of Natural History Handbook 5:124-131 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |