Also known as WY-17
Where: Albany County, Wyoming (41.9° N, 106.0° W: paleocoordinates 37.5° N, 52.2° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Morrison Formation, Kimmeridgian to Kimmeridgian (157.3 - 145.0 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: wet floodplain; gray claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by W. H. Reed in 1881; reposited in the YPM
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,
Primary reference: O. C. Marsh. 1879. Notice of new Jurassic reptiles. The American Journal of Science and Arts, series 3 18:501–505 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 39368: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 27.05.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Brontosaurus excelsus n. gen. n. sp.
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