Also known as DQ
Where: Washakie County, Wyoming (44.1° N, 107.5° W: paleocoordinates 39.0° N, 51.9° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Morrison Formation, Late/Upper Oxfordian to Late/Upper Oxfordian (161.2 - 150.8 Ma)
• lower part of formation, 6-9 m above contact w/underlying Sundance Fm.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fine channel fill; sandy mudstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected by H. Galiano in 1991, 2006-present
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ), mechanical,
• discovered ca. 1991 but not excavated until 2006-
Primary reference: H. Galiano and R. Albersdörfer. 2010. A New Basal Diplodocoid Species, Amphicoelias brontodiplodocus from the Morrison Formation, Big Horn Basin, Wyoming, with Taxonomic Reevaluation of Diplodocus, Apatosaurus, Barosaurus and Other Genera. Dinosauria International (Ten Sleep, WY) Report for September 2010 1-41 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 126540: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 06.04.2012, edited by Jonathan Tennant
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Brachiosaurus sp. Riggs 1903 brachiosaurid | |
Camarasaurus sp. Cope 1877 camarasaurid | |
Amphicoelias brontodiplodocus n. sp. Galiano and Albersdörfer 2010 sauropod DQ-TY, DQ-BD, DQ-SB, DQ-PC, DQ-EN
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? Apatosaurus sp. Marsh 1877 diplodocid
? Diplodocus sp. Marsh 1878 diplodocine
? Barosaurus sp. Marsh 1890 diplodocine | |
"Allosaurus jimmadsoni" = Allosaurus jimmadseni, Ceratosaurus sp.
"Allosaurus jimmadsoni" = Allosaurus jimmadseni Chure et al. 2006 allosauroid
Ceratosaurus sp. Marsh 1884 ceratosaur | |
Torvosaurus sp. Galton and Jensen 1979 tetanuran theropod | |
cf. Coelurus sp. Marsh 1879 coelurosaur | |
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Hesperosaurus mjosi Carpenter et al. 2001 ornithischian | |
"Othnielosaurus consors" = Nanosaurus agilis, Camptosaurus sp.
"Othnielosaurus consors" = Nanosaurus agilis Marsh 1877 ornithopod
Camptosaurus sp. Marsh 1885 ornithopod | |
Testudinata indet. Oppel 1811 turtle | |
unclassified | |
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Polypodiopsida | |
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unclassified | |
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