Bernice Quarry, Como Bluff (Jurassic to of the United States)

Also known as WY-42; WDIS Quarry 14c

Where: Albany County, Wyoming (41.9° N, 106.0° W: paleocoordinates 37.5° N, 52.1° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• Unit C

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: mire or swamp; poorly lithified sandstone

• "Ward Facies;" swamp
• "a soft non resistant sandstone."

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying,

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: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 55486: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 27.10.2005

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudinata - Pleurosternidae
Uluops uluops1 Carpenter and Bakker 1990 turtle
 Testudinata - Baenidae
Baenidae indet.1 Cope 1882 turtle
 Choristodera -
Choristodera indet.1 choristodere
 Ornithischia -
"Drinker nisti" = Nanosaurus agilis2
"Drinker nisti" = Nanosaurus agilis2 Marsh 1877 ornithopod
 Saurischia - Diplodocidae
Apatosaurus sp. Marsh 1877 diplodocid
 Pterosauria -