Stovall's Pit 5, Kenton (OMNH V94) (Jurassic to of the United States)

Also known as OK-2, WPA

Where: Cimarron County, Oklahoma (36.9° N, 103.0° W: paleocoordinates 32.3° N, 50.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• 39 m above the J5 unconformity

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: crevasse splay; mudstone

• poorly drained floodplain
• "an illitic floodplain mudstone"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J. W. Stovall in the 1930s

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: J. W. Stovall. 1938. The Morrison of Oklahoma and its dinosaurs. Journal of Geology 46:583-600 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 49596: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 20.04.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Stegosauridae
Stegosaurus sp.1 Marsh 1877 ornithischian
 Ornithischia -
Camptosaurus sp.1 Marsh 1885 ornithopod
 Theropoda -
Ceratosaurus sp.1 Marsh 1884 ceratosaur
Allosaurus sp.2 Marsh 1877 allosauroid
 Saurischia -
Sauropoda indet.1 Marsh 1878 sauropod
 Saurischia - Camarasauridae
Camarasaurus sp.2 Cope 1877 camarasaurid
 Saurischia - Diplodocidae
Apatosaurus sp.1 Marsh 1877 diplodocid
Diplodocus sp.1 Marsh 1878 diplodocine