Little Houston Quarry (SDSM V9138, SDSM V941) (Jurassic to of the United States)

Also known as WY-11, Main Quarry, Mammal Quarry

Where: Crook County, Wyoming (44.5° N, 104.7° W: paleocoordinates 39.8° N, 50.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• two closely spaced beds, Unit 2 and Unit 3

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: pond; green mudstone and gray, green siltstone

• pond formed from abandoned stream channel
• "interbedded light green, laminated silstone and green mudstone." "The bone-bearing lithosome is a light greenish-gray, finely laminated siltstone with thinly interbedded claystones"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by J. Foster; reposited in the SDSM

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: J. R. Foster. 1993. Sedminentology and taphonomy of the Little Houston Quarry, Morrison Formation (Upper Jurassic), northeast Wyoming. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 13(3, suppl.):38A [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 49636: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 21.04.2005, edited by Mark Uhen and Jonathan Tennant

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Branchiopoda
 Phyllopoda -
Diplostraca indet.4 branchiopod
Deuteropoda
  -
? Malacostraca indet.4 Latreille 1802
MWC 5640
Gastropoda
  -
Gastropoda indet.4 Cuvier 1795 snail
 Heterostropha - Valvatidae
Amplovalvata sp.4 Yen 1952 snail
JRF 9359
Bivalvia
 Unionida - Unionidae
Unionidae indet.4 Rafinesque 1820 freshwater mussel
including one potential new genus
Osteichthyes
 Dipnoi - Ceratodontidae
Mammalia
 Mammalia -
 Theriamorpha - Dryolestidae
Dryolestidae indet.2 Marsh 1879 mammal
Amblotherium megistodon n. sp.4 Foster et al. 2020 mammal
SDSM 148545, left dentary
 Multituberculata - Allodontidae
Allodontidae indet.4 Marsh 1889 multituberculate
SDSM 26912
Psalodon marshi5 Simpson 1929 multituberculate
 Triconodonta -
Triconodonta indet.2 triconodont
Osteichthyes
 Docodonta - Docodontidae
Docodon victor6 Marsh 1880 dodocont
Docodon cf. apoxys4 Rougier et al. 2014 dodocont
SDSM 60480, partial left dentary with four molarsSDSM 60480
Reptilia
  -
? Reptilia indet.2 Laurenti 1768 reptile
 Squamata - Paramacellodidae
cf. Paramacellodus sp.4 Hoffstetter 1967 squamates
 Testudinata - Pleurosternidae
Glyptops ornatus4 Marsh 1890 turtle
Dinochelys whitei2 Gaffney 1979 turtle
 Testudines -
Testudines indet. Batsch 1788 turtle
 Diapsida -
Archosauromorpha indet.4 Huene 1946 archosauromorph
JRF 95208
 Loricata -
Crocodyliformes indet.4 Hay 1930 crocodilian
 Loricata - Goniopholididae
? Goniopholididae indet.4 Cope 1875 crocodilian
SDSM 25337
 Loricata - Atoposauridae
Theriosuchus morrisonensis n. sp.3 Foster 2018 crocodilian
MWC 5625 - type (left dentary)
 Ornithischia -
Ornithopoda indet.2 Marsh 1881 ornithopod
Nanosaurus agilis4 Marsh 1877 ornithopod
Nanosaurus agilis4 Marsh 1877 ornithopod
adult specimen, teeth, isolated skull bones; JRF 9337
 Ornithischia - Stegosauridae
Stegosauridae indet.4 Marsh 1880 ornithischian
SDSM 25300
 Theropoda -
Theropoda "indet. B"4 Marsh 1881 theropod
MWC
Theropoda "indet. E"4 Marsh 1881 theropod
EBG 9830
Theropoda indet.2 Marsh 1881 theropod
? Abelisauroidea indet.4 Bonaparte 1991 ceratosaur
JRF 94130 ("Tooth Type D")
? Allosaurus sp.4 Marsh 1877 allosauroid
JRF 9739 ("Tooth Type C")
Allosaurus jimmadseni1 Chure et al. 2006 allosauroid
SDSM 30510, juvenile
 Theropoda - Dromaeosauridae
Dromaeosauridae indet.4 Colbert and Russell 1969 maniraptoran
JRF 95188
cf. Richardoestesia sp.4 Currie et al. 1990 maniraptoran
JRF 95222 ("Tooth Type A (cf. Richardoestesia?)")
 Theropoda -
? Tanycolagreus sp.4 Carpenter et al. 2005 coelurosaur
JRF 95215, R MT II
 Saurischia - Camarasauridae
Camarasaurus sp. Cope 1877 camarasaurid
SDSM 114501, JRF 9584
 Saurischia - Diplodocidae
Diplodocinae indet.4 diplodocine
either Diplodocus or Barosaurus; SDSM 25258
Diplodocinae indet.4 diplodocine
 Pterosauria -
Pterosauria indet.4 Kaup 1834 pterosaur
MWC 5809
 Eosuchia -
? Opisthias sp.2 Gilmore 1909 lepidosaur
EBG 9833
 Choristodera - Cteniogenyidae
Cteniogenys antiquus5 Gilmore 1928 choristodere
Amphibia
 Salientia -
Anura indet.5 frog
humerus, distal half
 Caudata -
Caudata indet.4 Scopoli 1777 salamander
Gnathostomata
  -
Actinopterygii indet. ray-finned fish
JRF 9470, 9588, 95232, 9529, 9572, 95138; MWC 5762, 5779,
unclassified
  -
Charophyta indet.4 Migula 1890
now lost
Gymnospermae
  -
"? Gymnospermae indet." = Pinophyta4
"? Gymnospermae indet." = Pinophyta4 Reveal 1996
SDSM 25305
Polypodiopsida
 Equisetales - Equisetidae
Equisetum sp.4 Linnaeus 1753 horsetail
JRF 95153