Also known as Truckstop Quarry, WY-40
Where: Albany County, Wyoming (41.9° N, 106.0° W: paleocoordinates 37.5° N, 52.1° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Talking Rocks Member (Morrison Formation), Kimmeridgian to Kimmeridgian (157.3 - 145.0 Ma)
• top of Unit B
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: wet floodplain; gray, silty claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by W. Reed in 1879; reposited in the YPM
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,
Primary reference: J. H. Ostrom and J. S. McIntosh. 1999. Marsh's Dinosaurs: The Collections from Como Bluff. Yale University Press, New Haven 1-388 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 39342: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 26.05.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Stegosaurus sp. Marsh 1877 ornithischian | |
"Antrodemus valens" = Allosaurus fragilis
"Antrodemus valens" = Allosaurus fragilis Marsh 1877 allosauroid | |
Camarasaurus sp. Cope 1877 camarasaurid | |
Apatosaurus sp. Marsh 1877 diplodocid
Barosaurus sp. Marsh 1890 diplodocine |