Also known as Robber's Roost, WY-29
Where: Carbon County, Wyoming (41.9° N, 106.1° W: paleocoordinates 37.5° N, 52.3° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Morrison Formation, Kimmeridgian to Kimmeridgian (157.3 - 145.0 Ma)
• upper middle part of formation
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: wet floodplain; gray, silty, carbonaceous claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by W. Reed, A. Lakes, F. Brown, Beck, & Kessler in 1879-1886 ; reposited in the YPM
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,
• mostly worked by Arthur Lakes, 1879-1880; reopened by Brown, Beck & Kessler 1886
Primary reference: O. C. Marsh. 1879. Notice of new Jurassic reptiles. American Journal of Science and Arts 18:501-505 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 39370: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 27.05.2004, edited by Jonathan Tennant and David Nicholson
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Coelurosauridae indet." = Coeluridae2
"Coelurosauridae indet." = Coeluridae2 Marsh 1881 coelurid YPM VP (uncatalogued), left proximal humerus.
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Torvosaurus tanneri2 Galton and Jensen 1979 tetanuran theropod YPM VP 058269 a nearly complete left tibia that is missing the distal end.
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Allosaurus fragilis2 Marsh 1877 allosauroid YPM VP 058258 right femur and proximal left tibia, YPM VP 058259 dorsal vertebra, YPM VP 058260 right lacrimal, right angular, left radius, and distal end of left fibula, YPM VP 058261 left ulna, YPM VP 058273 distal caudal vertebra, YPM VP 058275 distal end of right metatarsal M-III, YPM VP 058276 manual phalanx III-1, YPM VP 058277 ungual phalanx II-1
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Fosterovenator churei n. gen. n. sp.2
Fosterovenator churei n. gen. n. sp.2 Dalman 2014 ceratosaur YPM VP 058267A, B, C, a nearly complete right tibia with co-ossified astragalus. Paratype: YPM VP 058267D, complete right fibula of a much larger individual.
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Stegosaurus ungulatus n. sp.
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