Small's Quarry, Garden Park: Tithonian, Colorado
collected by B. Small 1992
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Dipnoi
- Ceratodontidae
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Ceratodus guentheri
Marsh 1878
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Carpenter 1998 | 72 elements | ||||||||
Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
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? Anura indet.
(Fischer von Waldheim 1813)
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Small and Carpenter 1997 | 1 individual | ||||||||
? Caudata indet.
Scopoli 1777
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Small and Carpenter 1997 | 2 specimens | ||||||||
Mammalia
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Mammalia indet.
Linnaeus 1758
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Foster 2003 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Dryolestidae
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Dryolestidae indet.
Marsh 1879
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Carpenter 1998 | 21 specimens | ||||||||
"new genus and species" | ||||||||||
Docodonta
- Docodontidae
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Docodon sp.
Marsh 1881
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Carpenter 1998 | 3 specimens | ||||||||
Docodon apoxys n. sp.
Rougier et al. 2014
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Rougier et al. 2014 | 3 specimens | ||||||||
DMNH 42198, a nearly complete left dentary with alveoli for i1–i4, p1, and crowns of the canine, p2–p4, and m1–m7; DMNH 42196, a partial left dentary missing most of the postdentary region, preserving crowns of p2–p4 and m1–m7; DMNH 42197, a partial left dentary missing most of the postdentary region, preserving alveoli for i1–i4 and p3, roots of the canine, and crowns of p1, p2, and p4, and m1–m7 | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Pleurosternidae
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? Dinochelys sp.
Gaffney 1979
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Carpenter 1998 | 2 specimens | ||||||||
= Dinochelys sp.
Gaffney 1979
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Foster 2003 | |||||||||
Glyptops plicatulus
(Cope 1877)
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Carpenter 1998 | 5 specimens | ||||||||
nomen dubium belonging to Glyptops | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Testudines
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Chelonia indet.
(Latreille 1800)
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Foster 2003 | |||||||||
synonym of Testudines | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Lacertilia
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Sauria indet.
Gauthier 1984
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Carpenter 1998 | 14 specimens | ||||||||
= Lacertilia indet.
Owen 1842
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Foster 2003 | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Goniopholididae
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Goniopholis sp.
Owen 1842
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Carpenter 1998 | 2 individuals | ||||||||
Reptilia
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? Mymoorapelta sp.
Kirkland and Carpenter 1994
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Carpenter 1998 | |||||||||
= Ankylosauria indet.
Osborn 1923
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Foster 2003 | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Stegosauridae
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Stegosaurus stenops
Marsh 1887
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Carpenter 1997 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
DMNH 2818 | ||||||||||
Reptilia
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Ornithopoda indet.
Marsh 1881
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Carpenter 1998 | 1 individual | ||||||||
Reptilia
- Dryosauridae
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Dryosaurus sp.
Marsh 1894
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Carpenter 1998 | 4 specimens | ||||||||
Reptilia
- Theropoda
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Theropoda indet.
Marsh 1881
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Carpenter 1998 | 1 individual | ||||||||
Reptilia
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Elaphrosaurus sp.
Janensch 1920
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Carpenter 1998 | 1 individual | ||||||||
DMNH 36284 | ||||||||||
= Ceratosauria indet.
Marsh 1884
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Carrano and Sampson 2008 | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Camarasauridae
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Camarasaurus sp.
Cope 1877
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Foster 2003 | 1 individual | ||||||||
= Camarasaurus grandis
Marsh 1877
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McWhinney et al. 2001 | |||||||||
DMNH 2908; humerus assoc. w/dorsal, caudals | ||||||||||
Reptilia
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Apatosaurus excelsus
(Marsh 1879)
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Carpenter 1998 | 1 individual | ||||||||
original and current combination Brontosaurus excelsus | ||||||||||
Kepodactylus insperatus n. gen., n. sp.
Harris and Carpenter 1996
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1 individual | |||||||||
DMNH 21684 (holotype), cervical, left humerus, phalange and metatarsal. Incorrectly listed as "Kepodactylus grandis" in 12893 | ||||||||||
Opisthias sp.
Gilmore 1909
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Small and Carpenter 1997 | |||||||||
Actinopterygii
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Osteichthyes indet.
Huxley 1880
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Carpenter 1998 | 29 elements | ||||||||
= Actinopterygii indet.
Cope 1887
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Foster 2003 | |||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Colorado | County: | Fremont |
Coordinates: | 38.5° North, 105.2° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 34.3° North, 52.7° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Late/Upper Jurassic |
Stage: | Tithonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Jurassic 6 |
Key time interval: | Tithonian | ||
Age range of interval: | 152.10000 - 145.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Morrison | Member: | Brushy Basin | ||
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: upper middle part of formation, also described as "low in the Brushy Basin Member" |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | lenticular,gray carbonaceous mudstone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: "a lenticular gray lacustrine mudstone...The mudstone is carbon rich, some of which is in the form of fusain or charcoal." | |
Environment: | pond |
Geology comments: "a small pond"; "an overbank pond that experienced occasional input of channel splays" |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Degree of concentration: | concentrated |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Preservation of anatomical detail: | excellent |
Abundance in sediment: | abundant |
Articulated whole bodies: | some |
Associated major elements: | some |
Disassociated major elements: | some |
Disassociated minor elements: | some |
Temporal resolution: | time-averaged |
Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | selective quarrying,mechanical,field collection | ||
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
Museum repositories: | DMNH | ||
Collectors: | B. Small | Collection dates: | 1992 |
Metadata
Also known as: | DMNH Quarry 6, CO-11 | ||
Database number: | 48161 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Carrano, P. Mannion | Enterer: | M. Carrano, J. Tennant |
Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2005-03-15 10:11:01 | Last modified: | 2022-03-11 15:15:27 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-03-15 10:11:01 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
14309. | ETE | J. D. Harris and K. Carpenter. 1996. A large pterodactyloid from the Morrison Formation (Late Jurassic) of Garden Park, Colorado. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Monatshefte 1996(8):473-484 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
55055 | K. Carpenter. 1997. Cañon City. In P. J. Currie & K. Padian (ed.), Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs 91-92 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
12892 | ETE | K. Carpenter. 1998. Armor of Stegosaurus stenops, and the taphonomic history of a new specimen from Garden Park, Colorado. Modern Geology 23:127-144 [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] |
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] | |
30810 | ETE | M. T. Carrano and S. D. Sampson. 2008. The phylogeny of Ceratosauria (Dinosauria: Theropoda). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 6(2):183-236 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
19094 | ETE | D. J. Chure. 2001. The second record of the African theropod Elaphrosaurus (Dinosauria, Ceratosauria) from the Western Hemisphere. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Monatshefte 2001(9):565-576 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
75727 | K. Decker. 2012. Evaluation of Proposed Expansion of the Garden Park Fossil Area National Natural Landmark, Fremont County, Colorado for its Merit in Meeting National Significance Criteria as a National Natural Landmark in Representing Geologic History of the Jurassic Period during the Age of Reptiles in the Southern Rocky Mountain Province, 27 pp. [M. Carrano/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] |
69484 | J. R. Foster and J. E. Peterson. 2016. First report of Apatosaurus (Diplodocidae: Apatosaurinae) from the Cleveland-Lloyd Quarry in the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation of Utah: abundance, distribution, paleoecology, and taphonomy of an endemic North American sauropod clade. Palaeoworld 25:431-443 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
46097 | J. R. Foster, K. C. Trujillo, S. K. Madsen and J. E. Martin. 2006. The Late Jurassic mammal Docodon, from the Morrison Formation of The Black Hills, Wyoming: implications for abundance and biogeography of the genus. In J. R. Foster & S. G. Lucas (ed.), Paleontology and Geology of the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 36:165-169 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant/M. Carrano] | |
54842 | L. A. McWhinney, K. Carpenter, and B. Rothschild. 2001. Dinosaurian humeral periostitis: a case of a juxtacortical lesion in the fossil record. In D. H. Tanke & K. Carpenter (ed.), Mesozoic Vertebrate Life: New Research Inspired by the Paleontology of Philip J. Currie 364-377 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
17532 | ETE | L. A. McWhinney, B. M. Rothschlid, and K. Carpenter. 2001. Posttraumatic chronic osteomyelitis in Stegosaurus dermal spikes. In K. Carpenter (ed.), The Armored Dinosaurs. Indiana University Press, Bloomington 141-156 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
15180 | ETE | 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] |
80668 | O. W. M. Rauhut and M. T. Carrano. 2016. The theropod dinosaur Elaphrosaurus bambergi Janensch, 1920, from the Late Jurassic of Tendaguru, Tanzania. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 178(3):546-610 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
50993 | G. W. Rougier, A. S. Sheth, K. Carpenter, L. Appella-Guiscafre, and B. M. Davis. 2014. A new species of Docodon (Mammaliaformes: Docodonta) from the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation and a reassessment of selected craniodental characters in basal mammaliaforms. Journal of Mammalian Evolution [P. Mannion/J. Tennant] | |
14856 | ETE | B. J. Small and K. Carpenter. 1997. Upper Jurassic microvertebrates from the "Small Quarry", Garden Park, Colorado. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 17(3, suppl.):76A-77A [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
13281 | ETE | 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] |