Bone Cabin Quarry West (BCQ West) (Jurassic to of the United States)

Also known as WY-79, Bone Cabin Quarry Extension, Bone Cabin Quarry-E

Where: Albany County, Wyoming (42.0° N, 106.3° W: paleocoordinates 37.7° N, 52.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Morrison Formation, Late/Upper Kimmeridgian to Late/Upper Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 145.0 Ma)

• "equivalent to Upper Salt Wash Member" and in "Lower Dinosaur Zone 2"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; poorly lithified, fine-grained sandstone and mudstone

• "poorly consolidated, fine-grained sandstone"

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ), mechanical,

Primary reference: K. Carpenter, C. Miles, and K. Cloward. 1998. Skull of a Jurassic ankylosaur (Dinosauria). Nature 393:782-783 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 49577: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 20.04.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Nodosauridae
"Gargoyleosaurus parkpini n. gen. n. sp." = Gargoyleosaurus parkpinorum
"Gargoyleosaurus parkpini n. gen. n. sp." = Gargoyleosaurus parkpinorum Carpenter et al. 1998 ankylosaur
new genus & species; DMNH 27726
 Ornithischia - Stegosauridae
Stegosaurus stenops6 Marsh 1887 ornithischian
 Ornithischia -
Camptosaurus sp.6 Marsh 1885 ornithopod
 Ornithischia - Dryosauridae
Dryosaurus sp.6 Marsh 1894 ornithopod
 Theropoda -
Ceratosaurus sp.5 Marsh 1884 ceratosaur
Tanycolagreus topwilsoni n. gen. n. sp.2 Carpenter et al. 2005 coelurosaur
TPII 2000-09-29
Allosaurus fragilis6 Marsh 1877 allosauroid
 Saurischia - Camarasauridae
Camarasaurus ? grandis4 Marsh 1877 camarasaurid
GMNH-PV-500
 Saurischia - Diplodocidae
Apatosaurus sp.6 Marsh 1877 diplodocid
Diplodocus sp.6 Marsh 1878 diplodocine
Barosaurus sp.1 Marsh 1890 diplodocine
 Pterosauria -
Harpactognathus gentryii n. gen. n. sp.3
Harpactognathus gentryii n. gen. n. sp.3 Carpenter et al. 2003 pterosaur
 Loricata -
Crocodylia indet.5 crocodilian