Also known as ETE Locality 1553, Bone Bed, BB Quarry, I Quarry, WY-99, WY-100, WY--101, WY-102, RoadBone
Where: Hot Spings County, Wyoming (43.6° N, 108.2° W: paleocoordinates 39.6° N, 53.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Morrison Formation, Late/Upper Kimmeridgian to Late/Upper Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 145.0 Ma)
• seven fossiliferous layers
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: crevasse splay; siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Collected in 1994–1995
Collection methods: quarrying,
• ETE reference list: 478
Primary reference: C. A. Bjoraker and M. T. Naus. 1996. A summary of Morrison Formation (Jurassic: Kimmeridgian–Tithonian) geology and paleontology, with notice of a new dinosaur locality in the Bighorn Basin (USA). In C. E. Bowen, S. C. Kirkwood, & T. S. Miller (eds.), Wyoming Geological Association Guidebook, Forty-Seventh Annual Field Conference. Resources of the Bighorn Basin 297-307 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 22678: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 23.04.2001, edited by Matthew Carrano
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Allosaurus sp. Marsh 1877 allosauroid | |
Barosaurus sp. Marsh 1890 diplodocine
Diplodocus sp. Marsh 1878 diplodocine | |
Camarasaurus sp. Cope 1877 camarasaurid | |
Camptosaurus sp. Marsh 1885 ornithopod | |
Stegosaurus sp. Marsh 1877 ornithischian |