Where: Albany County, Wyoming (41.9° N, 106.0° W: paleocoordinates 36.9° N, 51.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Morrison Formation, Kimmeridgian (157.3 - 152.1 Ma)
• two distinct layers
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by W. Reed in 1900–1903; reposited in the AMNH
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,
• juvenile sauropods and Allosaurus from lower layer; Camarasaurus and Allosaurus from upper layer
Primary reference: B. H. Breithaupt. 1990. Biography of William Harlow Reed: the story of a frontier fossil collector. Earth Sciences History 9(1):6-13 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 57903: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 05.01.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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