ammonites

Delfs Quarry, Garden Park (CMNH): Kimmeridgian, Colorado
collected 1954-1957

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:33.7° North, 51.8° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Late/Upper Jurassic
Stage:Kimmeridgian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 5
Key time interval:Kimmeridgian
Age range of interval:155.7 - 150.8 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Morrison Member:Salt Wash
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: mudstone
Secondary lithology: sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:crevasse splay
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Articulated whole bodies:some
Associated major elements:some
Fragmentation:occasional
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection,selective quarrying,mechanical
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection dates:1954-1957
Metadata
Also known as:Cleveland Museum, Cleveland Garden Park Quarry, CO-5
Database number:48155
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:ETE,vertebrate
Created:2005-03-15 08:56:00 Last modified:2010-08-23 11:45:54
Access level:the public Released:2005-03-15 08:56:00
Reference information
Primary reference:
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]

Secondary references:

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]
13877ETE J. S. McIntosh and M. E. Williams. 1988. A new species of sauropod dinosaur, Haplocanthosaurus delfsi sp. nov., from the Upper Jurassic Morrison Fm. of Colorado. Kirtlandia 43:3-26 [M. Carrano/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]
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]