Also known as Warm Springs Ranch

Where: Hot Springs County, Wyoming (43.6° N, 108.2° W: paleocoordinates 39.5° N, 53.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• tracks associated with bone quarry, but at 3 levels in total within this unit 1

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: wet floodplain; bioturbated, concretionary, volcaniclastic, shelly/skeletal, gray, carbonaceous mudstone and gray, argillaceous mudstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace, replaced with calcite

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

Primary reference: P. Watkins, D. Gray, T. Ikejiri and B. Pohl. 2005. Warm Springs Ranch dinosaur quarries from the upper Morrison Formation of north central Wyoming. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 25(3, suppl.):128A [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 55320: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Matthew Carrano on 08.10.2005

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