Quarry 8, Como Bluff (YPM) (Jurassic of the United States)

Also known as WY-19

Where: Albany County, Wyoming (41.9° N, 106.0° W: paleocoordinates 37.8° N, 52.6° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Morrison Formation, Tithonian (152.1 - 145.0 Ma)

• upper part of formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: pond; gray, green, argillaceous, silty claystone

• "pale gray to green-gray silty claystone with some carbonate and mud clasts"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by W. Reed; reposited in the YPM

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: J. H. Ostrom and J. S. McIntosh. 1999. Marsh's Dinosaurs: The Collections from Como Bluff. Yale University Press, New Haven 1-388 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 39347: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 26.05.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Stegosauridae
Stegosaurus sp.
Stegosaurus sp. Marsh 1877 ornithischian
 Saurischia - Camarasauridae
Camarasaurus sp.
Camarasaurus sp. Cope 1877 camarasaurid
 Saurischia - Diplodocidae
Diplodocus sp.
Diplodocus sp. Marsh 1878 diplodocine
 Theropoda -
"Coelurus" "fragilis", Allosaurus sp.
"Coelurus" "fragilis" Marsh 1879 coelurosaur
Allosaurus sp. Marsh 1877 allosauroid
 Loricata - Goniopholididae
Goniopholis sp.
Goniopholis sp. Owen 1842 crocodilian
 Testudines -
"Chelonia indet." = Testudines
"Chelonia indet." = Testudines Batsch 1788 turtle