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The Paleobiology Database
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1877-1901 Felch Quarry 1, Garden Park (YPM): Kimmeridgian
- Tithonian, Colorado. Includes Geography, Time, Stratigraphy,
Taphonomy, Lithology. Detailed references.
Taxonomic list with links to more detailed info
1883-1888 Felch YPM Quarry 2, Garden Park : Kimmeridgian
- Tithonian, Colorado
Other Garden Park quarries also found on this site:
- 1992
Small's Quarry, Garden Park, - 1954-57
Delfs Quarry, Garden Park, - 1991
Egg Gulch, Garden Park, - Many more – use Search
page and enter “ Garden Park ” for “Collection Name”.
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Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History
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Ceratosaurus
nasicornis (image)
Catalogue number: USNM 4735
Collected in 1883 by M.P. Felch, Fremont County,
Colorado
Jurassic Period, about 150 million years ago. This is the most famous
and most complete specimen of Ceratosaurus known. It was placed
on exhibit in 1910.
Diplodocus longus (skull, link
1, link
2)
Catalogue number: USNM 2672
Collected in 1883 by M.P. Felch, Fremont County,
Colorado
Jurassic Period, about 150 million years ago.
This is a complete skull.
Allosaurus
fragilis
Catalogue number: USNM 4734
Collected in 1883 by M.P. Felch, Fremont County,
Colorado
Jurassic Period, about 150 million years ago.
It wasn't until 30 years later that it was prepared by Charles Gilmore
to study, and nearly 70 more years passed before it was mounted
for exhibition.
Foot: (Link)
Collected 1884, by M. P. Felch., Catalogue number: USNM 8423
Dinosaur type specimens at The National Museum Of Natural History
Smithsonian Institution. Garden Park type specimens: (Link)
- Stegosaurus stenops Marsh 1887, USNM
4934. Named by Marsh in the American Journal of Science, volume
34, page 415, in 1887. The type specimen was collected by M.P. Felch
in 1886 at Garden Park, Colorado
- Ceratosaurus nasicornis Marsh 1884,
USNM 4735 (near Garden Park ).
- "Labrosaurus" ferox Marsh
1884, USNM 2315 (near Garden Park ).
- "Morosaurus" agilis Cope
1889, USNM 5384 (near Garden Park ).
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Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History
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Marsh's dinosaurs - Collection of historical scientific illustrations,
1250 drawings prepared under the direction of Othniel Charles Marsh.
Most were drawn by the artist, Frederick Berger. The illustration
collection Dr. Michael Brett-Surman, NMNH dinosaur collection manager,
discovered the bulk of the Marsh dinosaur illustrations on the top
of a museum storage cabinet in the vertebrate paleontology type
specimen room. Most of the collection consists of 155 46 x 30.5
cm folders. Each folder generally contained several fully rendered
original ink wash illustrations, preliminary sketches, paste-ups
showing how the illustrations should be arranged on a plate, and
tracings drawn in reverse that were used to transfer the illustrations
to a lithographic stone or wood engraving for reproduction....
Nineteen of these original lithographs appear in The Ceratopsia
by John Bell Hatcher (based on preliminary studies by Othniel Charles
Marsh). (Hatcher died before The Ceratopsia was published. Ultimately,
the book was edited and completed by Richard S. Lull and published
by the U.S. Geological Survey in 1907.) (Link)
Illustration on this page is a beautiful pen and ink line drawing
of the USNM type specimen of the dinosaur, Ceratosaurus nasicornis
Marsh, drawn by Rudolph Weber under the direction of Charles Gilmore.
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Carpenter’s publication listing including many on dinosaurs of
Garden Park, CO.
- Armor of Stegosaurus stenops, and the taphonomic history of
a new specimen from Garden Park,
Colorado.
- A baby ornithopod from the Morrison Formation of Garden Park,
CO.
- A toddler ornithopod from the Morrison Formation of Garden
Park, CO.
- Preliminary description of a Brachiosaurus skull from Felch
Quarry 1, Garden Park, CO.
- A reexamination of Morosaurus agilis (Sauropoda) from Garden
Park, CO.
- A new look at the sauropods of Garden Park, CO.
- A large pterodactyloid from the Morrison Formation (Late Jurassic)
of Garden Park, CO.
- New discoveries from the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation
at Garden Park, CO.
- History, sedimentology, and taphonomy of Felch Quarry 1 and
associated sandbodies, Morrison Formation, Garden Park, CO.
- The Dinosaurs of Marsh and Cope: the Jurassic dinosaurs of
Garden Park.
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Paleo
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Univ of CA, Berkley, Museum of
Paleo.
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Ceratosaurus
nasicornis - Meet the Ceratosauria: The “horned reptile”
theropod dinosaurs. Detailed description of Ceratosauria.
Thyreophora
(Stegosaurus & Ankylosaurus) - The armored dinosaurs.
Diplodocus
- Sauropod Dinosaurs
Allosaurus
fragilis - Tremble Before the Carnosauria! Big flesh-eating
machines.
Historical
Garden Park, Marsh: Early Dinosaur Discoveries in North America
- The dinosaur feuds.
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Dinosaur Depot, Canon City
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A Short History of Dinosaur Collecting - Garden Park Fossil Area,
Cañon City, Colorado. Chronological list of excavators
(Lucas, Cope, Mudge, Williston, Felch, Marsh, DeWeese, Kessler,
Delfs, Lindsey, Carpenter, Engard). Click on continuation pages!
[Newspaper articles, pics, field book sketches.]
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Yale, Peabody Museum
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Marsh history related to Peabody Museum
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Colorado State Parks, Natural Area, Feb ‘91
Historical: Garden
Park, Marsh/Cope
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GARDEN PARK – COLORADO'S JURASSIC PARK “…may be the greatest
Jurassic dinosaur graveyard in the world.” Garden Park produced
the type specimens of Camarasaurus, Allosaurus, Ceratosaurus,
Diplodocus and Haplocanthosaurus, as well as at least 16 species
of freshwater invertebrates.
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Jurassic dinosaurs of Colorado : Diplodocus longus, Allosaurus
fragilis, Ceratosaurus nasicornis, Apatosaurus, Morosaurus, ?Haplocanthosaurus
sp., Brachiosaurus sp., Stegosaurus armatus
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EnchantedLearning.com
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Paleontologist’s resumes: Ken Carpenter, Edward Cope, Othniel
Marsh, etc.
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EnchantedLearning.com
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Simple Stegosaurus Info (anatomy, diet & teeth, predators,
plates, behaviour, etc.)
Stegosaurus
Fact Sheet (additional links at top-right) MORE LINKS AT BOTTOM
OF PAGE.
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TheBigZoo.com
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Kid
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Info on Stegosaurus stenops
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Paleocurrents.com covers a variety of projects in Colorado in
an educational site run by a volunteer at the Denver Museum of Nature
& Science (DMNS).
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*Audience:
•Paleo – for scientific communitiy, related to quarry,
museums and historical info.
•Regular – info of interest to adults without paleo
background.
•Kid – related info at a child’s level.
For additional information, please contact the Dinosaur Depot
Museum at webmaster@dinosaurdepot.com.
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"I should think that if a petition was forwarded to the head
of the Genl. Land Office in Washington to have these lands set aside
for fossil explorations, and at the same time leave any or all such
lands open for bona-fide Homestead Entry = bar out the preemption
and timber culture nuisance = nests where all these frauds on on the
public domain are hatched = there would be no trouble in getting such
a measure through - as it seems to be in the line of the present policy
of that Dept."
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Marshall
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