Dyer Ranch Quarry 1 (Jurassic to of the United States)

Where: Carbon County, Wyoming (42.2° N, 106.3° W: paleocoordinates 37.8° N, 52.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. R. Foster. 2003. Paleoecological analysis of the vertebrate fauna of the Morrison Formation (Upper Jurassic), Rocky Mountain region, U.S.A. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 23:1-95 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 58512: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 10.02.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Saurischia - Diplodocidae
Apatosaurus sp. Marsh 1877 diplodocid