Also known as DQ
Where: Washakie County, Wyoming (44.1° N, 107.5° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 31.1° N, 39.0° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Morrison Formation, Late/Upper Oxfordian to Late/Upper Oxfordian (157.9 - 152.2 Ma)
• lower part of formation, 6-9 m above contact w/underlying Sundance Fm.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fine channel fill; medium-grained, coarse, brown, yellow sandstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected by H. Galiano, M. Norell, O. Mateus in 1991, 2006–2017; reposited in the AMNH
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
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Taxonomic list
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Reptilia | |
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Apatosaurus sp.1 Marsh 1877 diplodocid "Alex": A: proximal end of a femur; B: tibia and fibula(?), part of a femur(?), associated podeal material; C: several vertebrae and neural spines (10+), and distal part of femur
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Amphicoelias brontodiplodocus n. sp. Galiano and Albersdörfer 2010 sauropod DQ-TY, DQ-BD, DQ-SB, DQ-PC, DQ-EN
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Brachiosaurus sp. Riggs 1903 brachiosaurid | |
Camarasaurus sp. Cope 1877 camarasaurid | |
Camptosaurus sp., "Othnielosaurus consors" = Nanosaurus agilis
Camptosaurus sp. Marsh 1885 ornithopod
"Othnielosaurus consors" = Nanosaurus agilis Marsh 1877 ornithopod | |
Hesperosaurus mjosi Carpenter et al. 2001 ornithischian | |
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Torvosaurus sp. Galton and Jensen 1979 tetanuran theropod | |
"Allosaurus jimmadsoni" = Allosaurus jimmadseni
"Allosaurus jimmadsoni" = Allosaurus jimmadseni Chure et al. 2006 allosauroid | |
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cf. Coelurus sp. Marsh 1879 coelurosaur
Ceratosaurus sp. Marsh 1884 ceratosaur | |
Testudinata indet. Oppel 1811 turtle | |
Bivalvia | |
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unclassified | |
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Polypodiopsida | |
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