Howe Quarry 2 (Jurassic of the United States)

Also known as Sauriermuseum

Where: Big Horn County, Wyoming (44.5° N, 107.8° W: paleocoordinates 39.7° N, 52.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Morrison Formation, Kimmeridgian (157.3 - 152.1 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; lenticular, fine-grained, silty sandstone

• poorly drained floodplain environment

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace, soft parts

Collected by Siber & Siber in 1989–1997

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: B. H. Breithaupt. 1996. The discovery of a nearly complete Allosaurus from the Morrison Formation, eastern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming. Resources of the Bighorn Basin. Wyoming Geological Association Forty-Seventh Guidebook 309-313 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 46462: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 13.01.2005, edited by Roger Benson

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet.2 theropod
tracks
Allosaurus sp.1 Marsh 1877 allosauroid
teeth
 Saurischia - Dicraeosauridae
Kaatedocus siberi n. gen. n. sp.3
Kaatedocus siberi n. gen. n. sp.3 Tschopp and Mateus 2013 dicraeosaurid
"H.Q.1.", "H.Q.2"; SMA 0004