SDSM V9139, Dillon's Corner (Jurassic to of the United States)

Also known as WY-8, WY-9

Where: Crook County, Wyoming (44.2° N, 104.4° W: paleocoordinates 39.5° N, 50.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• near top of formation; upper and lower fossiliferous beds

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: dry floodplain; gray, green, red mudstone and sandstone

• "maroon to dark greenish-gray mudstone"

Size class: macrofossils

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 49637: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 21.04.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet. Marsh 1881 theropod
teeth
 Saurischia -
Sauropoda indet. Marsh 1878 sauropod
limb bone
 Saurischia - Diplodocidae
? Barosaurus sp. Marsh 1890 diplodocine
SDSM 25331
 Testudinata - Pleurosternidae
Glyptops sp. Marsh 1890 turtle
shell fragment