Where: Carbon County, Wyoming (41.8° N, 106.6° W: paleocoordinates 37.4° N, 52.7° 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: terrestrial
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by W. Reed in the 1890s; reposited in the UW
Collection methods: quarrying,
Primary reference: K. Hunter and B. Breithaupt. 2005. Rising from the dust: an Allosaurus' journey to the 21st century. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 25(3, suppl.):72A-73A [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 55330: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 10.10.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Allosaurus sp. Marsh 1877 allosauroid |