SDSM V923, Blacktail Creek (Jurassic to of the United States)

Where: Crook County, Wyoming (44.7° N, 104.6° W: paleocoordinates 40.0° N, 50.2° 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: lacustrine; gray, red limestone

• ponds and swamps on a poorly drained floodplain
• "light gray to pink limestone beds"

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the SDSM

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

Primary reference: J. R. Foster and J. E. Martin. 1994. Late Jurassic dinosaur localities in the Morrison Formation of northeastern Wyoming. In G. E. Nelson (ed.), Wyoming Geological Association Forty-Fourth Annual Field Conference. Wyoming Geological Association Guidebook 44:115-126 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 58511: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 10.02.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Saurischia - Camarasauridae
? Camarasaurus sp.
? Camarasaurus sp. Cope 1877 camarasaurid