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

Also known as WDIS Quarry 5a

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

• Unit A

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; fine-grained sandstone

• "fine grained sandstone"

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 230771: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 20.07.2023

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Loricata - Goniopholididae
Goniopholis sp. Owen 1842 crocodilian
shed tooth
 Saurischia - Diplodocidae
"Apatosaurus yahnahpin" = Brontosaurus yahnahpin
"Apatosaurus yahnahpin" = Brontosaurus yahnahpin Filla and Redman 1994 diplodocid