Carnegie Quarry C, Sheep Creek (Jurassic to of the United States)

Where: Albany County, Wyoming (42.2° N, 105.9° W: paleocoordinates 37.7° N, 52.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J. B. Hatcher, C. Gilmore & O Peterson in 1900, 1902; reposited in the CM

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: J. B. Hatcher. 1900. The Carnegie Museum Paleontological Expeditions of 1900. Science 12(306):718-720 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 52815: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 22.08.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Stegosauridae
Stegosaurus sp.3 Marsh 1877 ornithischian
DU-7 (= CM-BX 173, 125A), 8 (= CM-BX-90), 12 (= CM-BX 373), 13 (= CM-BX 323 197)
 Saurischia -
Sauropoda indet.3 sauropod
DU-11
 Saurischia - Diplodocidae
Apatosaurus sp.1 Marsh 1877 diplodocid
DU-10
Apatosaurus louisae3 Holland 1915 diplodocid
DU 2 (= CM-BX-C-50), 3 (= CM-BX-C-50), 4 (= CM-BX-C-E-55, B1-E-6), 5 (= CM-BX-C-50), 6 (= CM-BX-E-51, ACC 1617), 9 (=CM-BX-C-49, B1-C-9, ACC 1617), 11 (= CM-BX-E-52, B1-E31)
 Saurischia - Camarasauridae
Camarasaurus sp.2 Cope 1877 camarasaurid
CM 113, 574
Camarasaurus sp.2 Cope 1877 camarasaurid
CM 578