Bronte Quarry, Como Bluff (Jurassic to of the United States)

Also known as WDIS Quarry 1a

Where: Albany County, Wyoming (41.9° N, 106.0° W: paleocoordinates 37.5° N, 52.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• lower part of Unit A

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; gray, green mudstone

• "dark gray-green mudstone"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: quarrying,

Primary reference: M. V. Connely. 2002. Stratigraphy and Paleoecology of the Morrison Formation, Como Bluff, Wyoming 1-109 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 230769: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 20.07.2023

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
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"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia Linnaeus 1758 clam
thick-shelled, several individuals
Reptilia
 Testudinata - Pleurosternidae
Pleurosternidae "indet. 2" Cope 1868 turtle
 Loricata - Goniopholididae
Goniopholis sp. Owen 1842 crocodilian
shed teeth
 Theropoda -
Allosaurus sp. Marsh 1877 allosauroid
shed tooth
 Ornithischia -
Ornithopoda indet. Marsh 1881 ornithopod
 Saurischia -
Sauropoda indet. Marsh 1878 sauropod
Mammalia
 Mammalia -