Ninemile Quarry (AMNH) (Jurassic to of the United States)

Also known as Nine Mile Crossing, Nine Mile Quarry

Where: Big Horn County, Wyoming (41.9° N, 106.4° W: paleocoordinates 37.5° N, 52.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: wet floodplain; lithology not reported

• poorly drained floodplain

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1899, 1992; reposited in the AMNH

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

• reopened 1992 by C. Weege

Primary reference: M. K. Jesup. 1900. Department of Vertebrate Paleontology. Annual Report of the President, Treasurer's Report, List of Accessions, Act of Incorporation, Constitution, By-Laws and List of Members for the Year 1899 19; 64-65 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 55323: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 09.10.2005, edited by Philip Mannion

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Loricata -
"Crocodilia indet." = Crocodylia
"Crocodilia indet." = Crocodylia Owen 1842 crocodilian
 Ornithischia - Stegosauridae
Stegosaurus sp.1 Marsh 1877 ornithischian
juvenile
 Saurischia - Diplodocidae
Apatosaurinae indet.2 Janensch 1929 diplodocid