Stovall's Pit 9, Kenton (OMNH V98) (Jurassic to of the United States)

Also known as WPA

Where: Cimarron County, Oklahoma (36.9° N, 103.0° W: paleocoordinates 32.3° N, 50.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Kenton Member (Morrison Formation), Late/Upper Kimmeridgian to Late/Upper Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 145.0 Ma)

• upper middle part of formation; 33 m above the J5 unconformity

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: wet floodplain; red mudstone and sandstone

• well-drained floodplain, "animals died at, or near, a water hole"
• "a red illitic mudstone sandwiched between two sandstone beds"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by J. W. Stovall in the 1930s

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: J. W. Stovall. 1938. The Morrison of Oklahoma and its dinosaurs. Journal of Geology 46:583-600 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 56422: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 18.11.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines -
 Archosauria -
Archosauria indet.2 Cope 1869 archosaur
 Crocodylia -
"Crocodilia indet." = Crocodylia2
"Crocodilia indet." = Crocodylia2 Owen 1842 crocodilian
 Saurischia - Diplodocidae
Apatosaurus sp.1 Marsh 1877 diplodocid