Also known as ECQ, WY-86, Cam 1993
Where: Albany County, Wyoming (42.0° N, 106.3° W: paleocoordinates 37.7° N, 52.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Morrison Formation, Late/Upper Kimmeridgian to Late/Upper Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 145.0 Ma)
• about 14 m above base of member, "Zone 2"
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: "channel"; fine-grained, coarse, cherty/siliceous sandstone and concretionary mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: replaced with calcite, replaced with silica
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ), mechanical,
Primary reference: J. S. McIntosh, C. A. Miles, K. C. Cloward and J. R. Parker. 1996. A new nearly complete skeleton of Camarasaurus. Bulletin of the Gunma Museum of Natural History 1:1-87 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 47065: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 04.02.2005, edited by Philip Mannion
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Testudines indet. Batsch 1788 turtle | |
Amphicotylus milesi n. sp.
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Dryosaurus sp. Marsh 1894 ornithopod | |
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Diplodocus sp. Marsh 1878 diplodocine |