Also known as Fruita Paleontological Resource Area

Where: Mesa County, Colorado (39.2° N, 108.7° W: paleocoordinates 34.9° N, 54.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Brushy Basin Member (Morrison Formation), Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 150.8 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the LACM

Collection methods: quarrying,

• very likely the same as any of several other localities in the FPA

Primary reference: Z.-X. Luo and J. R. Wible. 2005. A Late Jurassic digging mammal and early mammalian diversification. Science 308:103-107 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 68024: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 25.12.2006

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