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 | |
Ophiopsis sp. Agassiz 1834 ray-finned fish | |
Ceratodus sp. Agassiz 1838 lungfish | |
Mammalia | |
Mammalia indet. Linnaeus 1758 mammal | |
Plagiaulacidae indet. Gill 1872 multituberculate | |
Laolestes eminens Simpson 1927 marsupial
Amblotherium gracilis Marsh 1879 marsupial
Comotherium richi n. gen. n. sp. Prothero 1981 marsupial | |
Osteichthyes | |
Docodon victor Marsh 1880 dodocont | |
Reptilia | |
Dinochelys whitei Gaffney 1979 turtle
Glyptops plicatulus Cope 1877 turtle | |
Paramacellodus sp. Hoffstetter 1967 squamates | |
Dorsetisaurus sp. Hoffstetter 1967 squamates | |
Goniopholis sp. Owen 1842 crocodilian | |
Fabrosauridae indet. Galton 1972 ornithischian | |
Stegosauridae indet. Marsh 1880 ornithischian | |
Carnosauria indet. carnosaur | |
Opisthias rarus Gilmore 1909 lepidosaur | |
Cteniogenys antiquus Gilmore 1928 choristodere |