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

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: Lake Como Member (Morrison Formation), Kimmeridgian to Kimmeridgian (157.3 - 145.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by C. Gilmore in 1901–1902; reposited in the CM

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: O. A. Peterson and C. W. Gilmore. 1902. Elosaurus parvus: a new genus and species of the Sauropoda. Annals of Carnegie Museum 1:490-499 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 52816: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 22.08.2005, edited by Philip Mannion

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Stegosauridae
Stegosaurus sp.1 Marsh 1877 ornithischian
CM 597
 Saurischia - Camarasauridae
Camarasaurus sp.1 Cope 1877 camarasaurid
CM 585
 Saurischia - Diplodocidae
"Elosaurus parvus n. gen. n. sp." = Brontosaurus parvus, "Brontosaurus parvus" = Brontosaurus parvus2
"Elosaurus parvus n. gen. n. sp." = Brontosaurus parvus Peterson and Gilmore 1902 diplodocid
CM 566
"Brontosaurus parvus" = Brontosaurus parvus2 Peterson and Gilmore 1902 diplodocid
CM 563 (= UWGM 15556), 37010, 21785