Dana Quarry (Jurassic to of the United States)

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

• seasonal body of water, possibly an oxbow lake
• "yellowish brown sandstone, coarse to medium-grained, eroded at the surface (sometimes fully covered by vegetation), and bearing vertebrate fossil remains (thickness: estimated between 5 and 10 meters)."

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

Gastropoda
 Heterostropha - Valvatidae
Amplovalvata scabrida1 snail
AMNH FI 113386a-g
Reptilia
 Dinosauria -
Dinosauria indet.1 dinosaur
neural spine (?), ribs (?), and other unidentified bones
 Saurischia -
Sauropoda indet.1 sauropod
metatarsal V; caudal vertebrae
 Saurischia - Diplodocidae
Diplodocidae indet.1 diplodocid
isolated anterior caudal vertebra
? Diplodocus sp.2 Marsh 1878 diplodocine
? Barosaurus sp.2 Marsh 1890 diplodocine
? Apatosaurus sp.2 Marsh 1877 diplodocid
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
 Saurischia -
Amphicoelias brontodiplodocus n. sp. Galiano and Albersdörfer 2010 sauropod
DQ-TY, DQ-BD, DQ-SB, DQ-PC, DQ-EN
 Saurischia - Brachiosauridae
Brachiosaurus sp. Riggs 1903 brachiosaurid
 Saurischia - Camarasauridae
Camarasaurus sp. Cope 1877 camarasaurid
 Ornithischia -
Camptosaurus sp., "Othnielosaurus consors" = Nanosaurus agilis
Camptosaurus sp. Marsh 1885 ornithopod
"Othnielosaurus consors" = Nanosaurus agilis Marsh 1877 ornithopod
 Ornithischia - Stegosauridae
Stegosauridae indet.1 Marsh 1880 ornithischian
AMNH FARB 33084, femur, humerous and rib
Hesperosaurus mjosi Carpenter et al. 2001 ornithischian
 Theropoda -
? Theropoda indet.1 theropod
3 vertebrae
 Theropoda - Megalosauridae
Torvosaurus sp. Galton and Jensen 1979 tetanuran theropod
 Theropoda -
"Allosaurus jimmadsoni" = Allosaurus jimmadseni
"Allosaurus jimmadsoni" = Allosaurus jimmadseni Chure et al. 2006 allosauroid
 Theropoda - Allosauridae
Allosauridae indet.1 Marsh 1878 allosaurid
anterior caudal vertebra
 Theropoda - Compsognathidae
Ornitholestes sp. Osborn 1903 compsognathid
"n. sp."
 Theropoda -
cf. Coelurus sp. Marsh 1879 coelurosaur
Ceratosaurus sp. Marsh 1884 ceratosaur
 Testudinata -
Testudinata indet. Oppel 1811 turtle
Bivalvia
 Unionida - Unionidae
Unio sp.1 Philipsson 1788 freshwater mussel
AMNH FI 113385
unclassified
  -
Coniferophyta indet.
"several families of conifers"
Cycadophyta indet. Bessey 1907
"cycads"
Pteridophyta indet. Haeckel 1875
"ferns"
Polypodiopsida
 Equisetales - Equisetidae
Equisetales indet. Dumortier 1829
"horsetails"