Peterson Quarry, NMMNH L-3282 (Jurassic to of the United States)

Also known as ETE Locality 1593, Laguna

Where: Bernalillo County, New Mexico (35.2° N, 107.1° W: paleocoordinates 31.1° N, 54.8° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• ETE dating method: time_unit, ETE age comment: . radiometric intage_max, radiometric intage_min; upper middle part of formation; upper part of member, 26 m below upper contact with Jackpile Mb

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coarse channel fill; lithified, lenticular, fine-grained, coarse, intraclastic, gray, conglomeratic sandstone and lenticular mudstone

• ETE sed env 1: fluvial, ETE sed env 2: floodplain ETE event: ., ETE env comment: 0; "the mixed fill of an abandoned channel"
• "a 1.1-m-thick sandstone lens that overlies and fills scours in less-well indurated, underlying sandstone. The bone-bearing sandstone is a well indurated, yellowish-gray, fine- to coarse-grained, subangular, poorly sorted subarkose. This unit is trough-bedded with some clay-pebble conglomerate clasts at the base of trough sets. Some thin (< 5 cm thick), discontinuous, sub-meter-scale mudstone lenses are also present."

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by R. Peterson, R. Peterson, D. D'Andrea in 1960s, 1989–; reposited in the NMMNH

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

• ETE reference list: 478, 121, 483, 479, 480, 1005

Primary reference: T. E. Williamson and D. J. Chure. 1996. A large allosaurid from the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation (Brushy Basin Member), west-central New Mexico. In M. Morales (ed.), The Continental Jurassic. Museum of Northern Arizona Bulletin 60:73-79 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 22717: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 29.05.2001, edited by Matthew Carrano

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Dinosauria -
Dinosauria indet.5, ? Dinosauria indet.3
Dinosauria indet.5 Owen 1842 dinosaur
NMMNH P-37876-37877
? Dinosauria indet.3 Owen 1842 dinosaur
NMMNH P-37748
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet.5, ? Theropoda indet.3
Theropoda indet.5 Marsh 1881 theropod
NMMNH P-35819
? Theropoda indet.3 Marsh 1881 theropod
NMMNH P-37878
 Theropoda - Allosauridae
Allosauridae indet., ? Allosauridae indet.3
Allosauridae indet. Marsh 1878 allosaurid
Saurophaganax-like; NMMNH P-26083, 39769
? Allosauridae indet.3 Marsh 1878 allosaurid
NMMNH P-35958
 Saurischia -
Saurischia indet., ? Sauropoda indet.3, Sauropoda indet.3
Saurischia indet. saurischian
? Sauropoda indet.3 Marsh 1878 sauropod
NMMNH P-35820, 37746-37747, 37879
Sauropoda indet.3 Marsh 1878 sauropod
NMMNH P-34844, 35383–35386, 38575
 Saurischia - Diplodocidae
Diplodocidae indet., ? Diplodocidae indet.3
Diplodocidae indet. diplodocid
possibly Diplodocus; NMMNH P-26084, P-26082
? Diplodocidae indet.3 diplodocid
NMMNH P-39768, 39770
 Saurischia - Camarasauridae
Camarasaurus sp.2
Camarasaurus sp.2 Cope 1877 camarasaurid
NMMNH P-27340, 39598
 Ornithischia -
Ankylosauria indet.1
Ankylosauria indet.1 Osborn 1923 ankylosaur
NMMNH P-58749, osteoderm (Gargoyleosaurus or Mymoorapelta)
 Testudinata - Pleurosternidae
Glyptops plicatulus4
Glyptops plicatulus4 Cope 1877 turtle
NMMNH P-44530
1Burns and Lucas 2015; 2Foster 2003; 3Heckert et al. 2003; 4Lucas et al. 2006; 5Lucas et al. 1996