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Ghost Ranch is owned by the Presbyterian Church (USA) and leased to and managed by The National Ghost Ranch Foundation, Inc. Ghost Ranch is known for a remarkable concentration of fossils, most notably that of the theropod dinosaur Coelophysis, of which it has been estimated that nearly a thousand individuals have been preserved in a quarry at ...
The famed Coelophysis quarry of Ghost Ranch, as it appears in 2019.. The type species of Coelophysis was originally named as a species of Coelurus. [11] Edward Drinker Cope first named Coelophysis in 1889 to name a new genus, outside of Coelurus and Tanystropheus, which C. bauri was previously classified in, for C. bauri, C. willistoni, and C. longicollis. [12]
The only specimen of Daemonosaurus was recovered at the Coelophysis (Whitaker) quarry at Ghost Ranch in Rio Arriba County, New Mexico. This site preserves pebbly, calcareous conglomerate rich in fossils of many different animals, with the theropod dinosaur Coelophysis being particularly abundant.
The Whitaker quarry of Ghost Ranch, New Mexico is believed to be located in the Rock Point Formation, although these beds have also controversially been assigned to the Owl Rock Formation. [1] This quarry has also been referred to as the Coelophysis quarry due to preserving a large number of specimens of the early theropod dinosaur Coelophysis ...
The Hayden Quarry at Ghost Ranch belongs to the lower portion of the Petrified Forest Member of the Chinle Formation in New Mexico. The discovery of Tawa alongside the relatives of Coelophysis and Camposaurus supports the hypothesis that the earliest dinosaurs arose in Gondwana during the Late Triassic period in what is now South America, and ...
Petrified Forest (Hayden Quarry #3) Owl Rock ‘Red siltstone’ A lagerpetid pterosauromorph found at various Ghost Ranch quarries and elsewhere in the Chinle Formation. Daemonosaurus. D. chauliodus. New Mexico "Siltstone" Skull and neck vertebrae fragments A possible basal theropod with a short skull and enlarged teeth. Eucoelophysis. E ...
The famous Whitaker quarry of Ghost Ranch, New Mexico, also been referred to as the Coelophysis quarry due to preserving a large number of specimens of the early theropod dinosaur Coelophysis bauri, [7] was one of the most important of the basin. Even richer is the Snyder quarry, discovered in 1998. [1]
Vancleavea fossils have been found throughout New Mexico and Arizona, but the most complete specimens hail from the Coelophysis Quarry at Ghost Ranch.. Vancleavea was first discovered in 1962 from the Petrified Forest Member of the Petrified Forest National Park and initially described by Long and Murry in 1995.