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

Also known as WDIS Quarry 10c

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 mudstone

• "nonresistant mudstone"

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 231545: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 23.08.2023

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Dipnoi - Ceratodontidae
Ceratodus sp. Agassiz 1838 lungfish
Reptilia
 Ornithischia -
"Drinker nisti" = Nanosaurus agilis
"Drinker nisti" = Nanosaurus agilis Marsh 1877 ornithopod
 Saurischia -
 Theropoda -
Ceratosaurus sp. Marsh 1884 ceratosaur
shed teeth
 Theropoda - Megalosauridae
Megalosauridae indet. Fitzinger 1843 tetanuran theropod
shed teeth
 Theropoda -
Allosaurus sp. Marsh 1877 allosauroid
shed teeth
 Loricata - Goniopholididae
Goniopholis sp. Owen 1842 crocodilian
shed teeth
 Testudinata - Baenidae
Baenidae indet. Cope 1882 turtle
possibly several individuals