Lance Creek area (Jurassic to of the United States)

Also known as Dyslocosaurus type

Where: Niobrara County, Wyoming (43.2° N, 104.3° W: paleocoordinates 38.5° N, 50.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• originally reported as from the Lance Formation, but this is disputed and the authors consider it more likely to have come from the Morrison or (less likely) the Cloverly in the Lance Creek area.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by F. B. Loomis

Primary reference: J. S. Mcintosh, W. P. Coombs, and D. A. Russell. 1992. A new diplodocid sauropod (Dinosauria) from Wyoming, U.S.A. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 12(2):158-167 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 106532: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 24.03.2011

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Saurischia - Dicraeosauridae
Dyslocosaurus polyonychius n. gen. n. sp. Mcintosh et al. 1992 dicraeosaurid
AC 663