Mel's Femur Quarry, Como Bluff (Jurassic to of the United States)

Also known as WDIS Quarry 25a

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; lenticular sandstone

• "sandstone lens"

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying, 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 231569: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 24.08.2023

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Saurischia - Diplodocidae
Diplodocus sp.
Diplodocus sp. Marsh 1878 diplodocine
 Theropoda -
Allosaurus sp.
Allosaurus sp. Marsh 1877 allosauroid
shed tooth, toe claw