ammonites
State Hwy 58, North Table Mountain (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Jefferson County, Colorado (39.8° N, 105.2° W: paleocoordinates 46.5° N, 81.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Denver Formation, Maastrichtian (70.6 - 65.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by Colorado School of Mines in 1971

Collection methods: quarrying,

Primary reference: K. Carpenter and D. B. Young. 2002. Late Cretaceous dinosaurs from the Denver Basin, Colorado. Rocky Mountain Geology 37(2):237-254 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 49534: authorized by Matt Carrano, entered by Matt Carrano on 19.04.2005