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

Also known as WDIS Quarry 3c, Breakfast Bench

Where: Albany County, Wyoming (41.9° N, 106.0° W: paleocoordinates 37.5° N, 52.1° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Indian Fort Member (Morrison Formation), Kimmeridgian to Kimmeridgian (157.3 - 145.0 Ma)

• Unit C

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; poorly lithified, muddy conglomerate

• "mud supported, non resistant conglomerate"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

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 230770: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 20.07.2023

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
  -
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia Linnaeus 1758 clam
Reptilia
 Testudinata - Baenidae
Baenidae indet. Cope 1882 turtle
 Testudinata - Pleurosternidae
Pleurosternidae indet. Cope 1868 turtle
 Testudines -
Cryptodira indet. turtle
"Creastodine"
 Loricata - Goniopholididae
Goniopholis sp. Owen 1842 crocodilian
"estimated 20 individuals and 300+ shed teeth"
 Theropoda - Megalosauridae
Megalosauridae indet. Fitzinger 1843 tetanuran theropod
tooth
 Theropoda -
Allosaurus sp. Marsh 1877 allosauroid
tooth
Coelurus sp. Marsh 1879 coelurosaur
tooth
 Theropoda - Dromaeosauridae
Dromaeosauridae indet. Colbert and Russell 1969 maniraptoran
tooth ("dromiosaurid")
 Theropoda -
Ceratosaurus sp. Marsh 1884 ceratosaur
tooth
 Ornithischia -
"Othnielia sp." = Ornithopoda, "Drinker nisti" = Nanosaurus agilis
"Othnielia sp." = Ornithopoda Marsh 1881 ornithopod
"Drinker nisti" = Nanosaurus agilis Marsh 1877 ornithopod
 Ornithischia - Dryosauridae
Dryosauridae indet. Milner and Norman 1984 ornithopod
"driosaurid"
 Saurischia - Camarasauridae
Camarasaurus sp. Cope 1877 camarasaurid
 Saurischia - Diplodocidae
Diplodocus sp. Marsh 1878 diplodocine
 Eosuchia -
Opisthias sp. Gilmore 1909 lepidosaur
Mammalia
 Multituberculata -
Multituberculata indet. multituberculate
 Multituberculata - Allodontidae
Ctenacodon brentbaatar Bakker 1998 multituberculate
"Zophia brentbaatar"
Amphibia
 Polypodiales - Polypodiidae
Amioidea indet. Bonaparte 1838 bowfin
Chondrostei
 Amblypteriformes - Coccocephalichthyidae
Ceratodus "sp. 1" Agassiz 1838 lungfish
Ceratodus "sp. 2" Agassiz 1838 lungfish
Ceratodus robustus Knight 1898 lungfish