AMNH Stego 99 Quarry (Jurassic to of the United States)

Also known as WY-80, Jeff Parker's Quarry; Jeff P Quarry

Where: Albany County, Wyoming (42.0° N, 106.3° W: paleocoordinates 37.5° N, 52.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• high in formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "channel"; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by AMNH; J. Parker in 1899, 1991; reposited in the AMNH, MCZ

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

• reopened 1991 by J. Parker

Primary reference: C. A. Miles and D. W. Hamblin. 1999. Historical update: paleontological excavation in the Como Region. In J. H. Ostrom & J. S. McIntosh, Marsh's Dinosaurs. Yale University Press, New Haven vii-xiv [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 55483: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 27.10.2005

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Theropoda -
 Ornithischia - Stegosauridae
Stegosaurus sp. Marsh 1877 ornithischian
 Saurischia - Diplodocidae
Diplodocus sp. Marsh 1878 diplodocine
juvenile skull
 Saurischia - Camarasauridae
Camarasaurus sp. Cope 1877 camarasaurid
braincases
 Loricata -
Crocodylia indet. crocodilian
 Testudinata - Pleurosternidae
Glyptops sp. Marsh 1890 turtle