Quarry 9, producing layer (AMNH-YPM) (Jurassic to of the United States)

Where: Albany County, Wyoming (41.9° N, 106.0° W: paleocoordinates 37.5° N, 52.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Morrison Formation, Kimmeridgian to Kimmeridgian (157.3 - 145.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected in 1968-1970; reposited in the AMNH, YPM

Collection methods: bulk, quarrying, mechanical, sieve,

Primary reference: D. R. Prothero. 1981. New Jurassic mammals from Como Bluff, Wyoming, and the interrelationships of non-tribosphenic Theria. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 167(5):277-326 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 39431: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 28.05.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
  -
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Bivalvia
  -
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
Osteichthyes
 Halecomorphi - Ophiopsiidae
Ophiopsis sp. Agassiz 1834 ray-finned fish
 Dipnoi - Ceratodontidae
Ceratodus sp. Agassiz 1838 lungfish
Mammalia
  -
Mammalia indet. Linnaeus 1758 mammal
 Multituberculata - Plagiaulacidae
Plagiaulacidae indet. Gill 1872 multituberculate
 Theriamorpha - Herpetotheriidae
Laolestes eminens Simpson 1927 marsupial
Amblotherium gracilis Marsh 1879 marsupial
Comotherium richi n. gen. n. sp. Prothero 1981 marsupial
Osteichthyes
 Docodonta - Docodontidae
Docodon victor Marsh 1880 dodocont
Reptilia
 Testudinata - Pleurosternidae
Dinochelys whitei Gaffney 1979 turtle
Glyptops plicatulus Cope 1877 turtle
 Squamata - Paramacellodidae
Paramacellodus sp. Hoffstetter 1967 squamates
 Squamata - Dorsetisauridae
Dorsetisaurus sp. Hoffstetter 1967 squamates
 Loricata - Goniopholididae
Goniopholis sp. Owen 1842 crocodilian
 Ornithischia - Fabrosauridae
Fabrosauridae indet. Galton 1972 ornithischian
 Ornithischia - Stegosauridae
Stegosauridae indet. Marsh 1880 ornithischian
 Avetheropoda -
 Eosuchia -
Opisthias rarus Gilmore 1909 lepidosaur
 Choristodera - Cteniogenyidae
Cteniogenys antiquus Gilmore 1928 choristodere