Homestead Quarry, OMNH V1692 (Jurassic to of the United States)

Also known as Black Mesa

Where: Cimarron County, Oklahoma (36.9° N, 102.9° W: paleocoordinates 32.1° N, 50.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• 23 m above the J5 unconformity

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: pond; shelly/skeletal lime mudstone

• "a freshwater palustrine environment or small pond"
• "The quarry is associated with an ostracodal micrite"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by K. Smith & R. Whitten in 2012

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ),

Primary reference: D. R. Richmond, T. C. Hunt, and R. L. Cifelli. 2020. Stratigraphy and sedimentology of the Morrison Formation in the western panhandle of Oklahoma with reference to the historical Stovall dinosaur quarries. Journal of Geology 128:477-515 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 231016: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 31.07.2023

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Reptilia
 Dinosauria -
Dinosauria indet.
Dinosauria indet. Owen 1842 dinosaur