Lynn Quarry (Jurassic of the United States)

Also known as UW V-97014, Ninemile Hill, WY-84

Where: Carbon County, Wyoming (42.0° N, 106.1° W: paleocoordinates 37.9° N, 52.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Morrison Formation, Tithonian (152.1 - 145.0 Ma)

• high in Morrison Fm.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: wet floodplain; gray claystone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by C. J. Weege & Shellman in 1992; reposited in the UW

Collection methods: bulk, quarrying, surface (float), mechanical, sieve,

• screenwashing by Kelli Trujillo

Primary reference: C. A. Miles and D. W. Hamblin. 1999. Historical update: paleontological excavation in the Como Region. In J. H. Ostrom & J. S. McIntosh, Marsh's Dinosaurs. Yale University Press, New Haven vii-xiv [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 55482: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 27.10.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gnathostomata
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Mammalia
  -
Mammalia indet. Linnaeus 1758 mammal
Reptilia
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Reptilia indet. Laurenti 1768 reptile
 Testudines -
Testudines indet. Batsch 1788 turtle
 Choristodera - Cteniogenyidae
Cteniogenys antiquus1 Gilmore 1928 choristodere
 Theropoda -
Allosaurus sp.2 Marsh 1877 allosauroid
 Ornithischia -
"? Drinker sp." = Nanosaurus2
"? Drinker sp." = Nanosaurus2 Marsh 1877 ornithopod
 Saurischia - Camarasauridae
Camarasaurus sp.2 Cope 1877 camarasaurid
 Saurischia - Diplodocidae
Diplodocus sp.2 Marsh 1878 diplodocine
 Loricata -
Crocodylia indet. crocodilian