Carnegie Quarry N, Sheep Creek (Jurassic to of the United States)

Also known as Freezeout Mountains, Freezeout Hills

Where: Albany County, Wyoming (42.2° N, 105.9° W: paleocoordinates 37.7° N, 52.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• upper third of formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "channel"; paleosol/pedogenic, gray siltstone and gray, green claystone

• "The bone-producing lithology of the quarry is generally a somewhat secondarily stratified light to medium gray siltstone, with some slight mottling through the quarry. Plant debris is uncommon. There are multiple poorly defined layers of small, white to gray carbonate nodules present at the quarry. These layers are less than half a meter thick. A barren, greenish gray clay-rich layer, less than 20 cm thick, overlies one of the carbonate zones."

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by C. Gilmore in 1902; reposited in the CM

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: W. J. Holland. 1904. Section of Paleontology. Annual Report of the Director for the Year Ending March 31, 1904 21-25 [M. Carrano/A. Murch/A. Murch]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 48837: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 30.03.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Dinosauria -
Dinosauria indet.3
Dinosauria indet.3 dinosaur
CM 36681, 36688
 Ornithischia - Stegosauridae
Stegosaurus sp.3
Stegosaurus sp.3 Marsh 1877 ornithischian
CM 21737, 36696–8
 Theropoda -
Allosaurus fragilis3
Allosaurus fragilis3 Marsh 1877 allosauroid
CM 1254
 Saurischia - Camarasauridae
Camarasaurus sp.3
Camarasaurus sp.3 Cope 1877 camarasaurid
CM 1252, 1255, 21730, 36663–4, 36666, 36668–9, 36671, 36675, 36677–80, 36684–6, 36693–5
 Saurischia -
Haplocanthosaurus sp.2
Haplocanthosaurus sp.2 Hatcher 1903 sauropod
 Saurischia - Diplodocidae
Apatosaurus sp.1
Apatosaurus sp.1 Marsh 1877 diplodocid
 Loricata -
Crocodylia indet.2
Crocodylia indet.2 crocodilian
 Testudinata - Pleurosternidae
Glyptops sp.2
Glyptops sp.2 Marsh 1890 turtle
1Fiorillo 1998; 2Foster 2003; 3McIntosh 1981