SDSM V9137, MIA Quarry (Jurassic to of the United States)

Also known as WY-12, Inyan Kara Creek

Where: Crook County, Wyoming (44.5° N, 104.7° W: paleocoordinates 39.8° N, 50.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Morrison Formation, Kimmeridgian to Kimmeridgian (157.3 - 145.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: wet floodplain; mudstone and siltstone

• "a silty layer in a unit consisting mostly of mudstone and limestone"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1978; reposited in the SDSM

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: J. R. Foster and J. E. Martin. 1994. Late Jurassic dinosaur localities in the Morrison Formation of northeastern Wyoming. In G. E. Nelson (ed.), Wyoming Geological Association Forty-Fourth Annual Field Conference. Wyoming Geological Association Guidebook 44:115-126 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 49634: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 21.04.2005

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Saurischia - Diplodocidae
? Barosaurus sp.
? Barosaurus sp. Marsh 1890 diplodocine
SDSM 25217
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet.