Also known as Breakfast Bench, WY-24, WY-25, Drinker nisti Quarry
Where: Albany County, Wyoming (41.9° N, 105.9° W: paleocoordinates 37.7° N, 52.5° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Indian Fort Member (Morrison Formation), Tithonian (152.1 - 145.0 Ma)
• 17 m below Dakota Sandstone
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deltaic; sandstone and green mudstone
•below: "finely laminated green mudstone"
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected by R. Bakker in 1978
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,
Primary reference: R. T. Bakker, P. M. Galton, J. Siegwarth and J. Filla. 1990. A new latest Jurassic vertebrate fauna, from the highest levels of the Morrison Formation at Como Bluff, Wyoming, with comments on Morrison biochronology. Part IV. The dinosaurs: a new Othnielia-like hypsilophodontoid. Hunteria 2(6):8-19 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 177492: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 29.03.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Drinker nisti n. gen. n. sp." = Nanosaurus agilis
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