ammonites

Green River Quarry: Kimmeridgian - Tithonian, Utah

Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Geography
Country:United States State/province:Utah County:Emery
Coordinates: 39.0° North, 110.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:35.2° North, 56.7° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
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
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray claystone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:wet floodplain
Geology comments: poorly drained floodplain
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection,selective quarrying
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:UT-9
Database number:49626
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:ETE,vertebrate
Created:2005-04-20 20:56:26 Last modified:2005-11-18 08:47:07
Access level:the public Released:2005-04-20 20:56:26
Reference information
Primary reference:
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]

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]