ammonites

Felch Quarry 2, Garden Park (YPM): Kimmeridgian - Tithonian, Colorado
collected by Felch 1883-1888

Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
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:stated in text
Altitude:1861 meters
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Late/Upper Jurassic
Key time interval:Kimmeridgian - Tithonian
Age range of interval:155.7 - 145.5 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Morrison Member:Brushy Basin
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: in sandbody 4, upper interval of Morrison, 47.9 m above J5 unconformity (base of Morrison)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:lenticular,current ripples,white,yellow sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:"channel"
Geology comments: channel top-point bar in moderately drained floodplain
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Abundance in sediment:common
Associated major elements:some
Disassociated major elements:some
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection,selective quarrying,mechanical
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Museum repositories:YPM
Collectors:Felch Collection dates:1883-1888
Collection method comments: 1888, Marsh
Metadata
Also known as:CO-4
Database number:39377
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:ETE,vertebrate
Created:2004-05-27 06:49:08 Last modified:2007-11-08 17:25:02
Access level:the public Released:2004-05-27 06:49:08
Reference information
Primary reference:
5669ETE 1424P. Dodson, A. K. Behrensmeyer, R. T. Bakker and J. S. McIntosh. 1980. Taphonomy and paleoecology of Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation. Paleobiology 6:208-232 [K. Behrensmeyer/K. Behrensmeyer/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

12893ETE K. Carpenter. 1998. Vertebrate biostratigraphy of the Morrison Formation near Caņon City, Colorado. Modern Geology 23:407-426 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
12896ETE E. Evanoff and K. Carpenter. 1998. History, sedimentology, and taphonomy of Felch Quarry 1 and associated sandbodies, Morrison Formation, Garden Park, Colorado. Modern Geology 23:145-169 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
15179ETE 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]
15180ETE P. E. Monaco. 1998. A short history of dinosaur collecting in the Garden Park Fossil Area, Caņon City, Colorado. Modern Geology 23(1-4):465-480 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
10618 J. H. Ostrom and J. S. McIntosh. 1999. Marsh's Dinosaurs: The Collections from Como Bluff. Yale University Press, New Haven 1-388 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
13281ETE 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]