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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Dyslocosaurus polyonychius n. gen. n. sp.
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