Carnegie Quarry B, 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: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by O. Peterson & C. Gilmore in 1900; reposited in the CM

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: J. S. McIntosh. 1981. Annotated catalogue of the dinosaurs (Reptilia, Archosauria) in the collections of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. Bulletin of Carnegie Museum of Natural History 18:1-67 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 142336: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 09.04.2013

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Saurischia - Diplodocidae
"Apatosaurus excelsus" = Brontosaurus excelsus
"Apatosaurus excelsus" = Brontosaurus excelsus Marsh 1879 diplodocid
CM 33994, femur