Also known as UW V-98046, WY-82
Where: Carbon County, Wyoming (42.0° N, 106.1° W: paleocoordinates 38.0° N, 52.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Morrison Formation, Early/Lower Tithonian (150.8 - 145.0 Ma)
• < 1 m below contact of approx. 15-m-thick unit of dark gray mudstone marking top of Morrison; total unit thickness here = 143 m
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: wet floodplain; gray claystone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Reposited in the UW
Collection methods: bulk, quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ), mechanical, sieve,
Primary reference: C. E. Turner and F. Peterson. 1999. Biostratigraphy of dinosaurs in the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation of the Western Interior, U.S.A. In D. D. Gillette (ed.), Vertebrate Paleontology in Utah, Utah Geological Survey Miscellaneous Publication 99-1:77-114 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 56654: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 21.11.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Drinker sp." = Nanosaurus
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"Chelonia indet." = Testudines1
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