Hanksville-Burpee Quarry (Jurassic to of the United States)

Also known as UT-1

Where: Wayne County, Utah (38.3° N, 110.8° W: paleocoordinates 34.6° N, 57.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• lower part of upper Brushy Basin Member

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "channel"; lithified, burrowed sandstone

• "a series of sand bars in a braided river system"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by F. Rakow in 2007–present

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ),

• discovered earlier, but not formally excavated until 2007 by Burpee Museum

Primary reference: C. E. Turner and F. Peterson. 1999. Biostratigraphy of dinosaurs in the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation of the Western Interior, U.S.A. In D. D. Gillette (ed.), Vertebrate Paleontology in Utah, Utah Geological Survey Miscellaneous Publication 99-1:77-114 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 58514: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 10.02.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Bivalvia
 Unionida - Unionidae
Unionidae indet.2
Unionidae indet.2 Rafinesque 1820 freshwater mussel
Mammalia
 Mammalia -
? Mammalia indet.2
? Mammalia indet.2 mammal
burrows
Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Dryosauridae
Dryosaurus sp.1
Dryosaurus sp.1 Marsh 1894 ornithopod
 Ornithischia - Stegosauridae
Stegosaurus sp.2
Stegosaurus sp.2 Marsh 1877 ornithischian
 Ornithischia - Nodosauridae
Mymoorapelta sp.1
Mymoorapelta sp.1 Kirkland and Carpenter 1994 ankylosaur
 Theropoda -
Allosaurus sp.2
Allosaurus sp.2 Marsh 1877 allosauroid
"new(?)"
 Saurischia - Camarasauridae
Camarasaurus sp.2
Camarasaurus sp.2 Cope 1877 camarasaurid
 Saurischia - Brachiosauridae
? Brachiosaurus sp.2
? Brachiosaurus sp.2 Riggs 1903 brachiosaurid
 Saurischia - Diplodocidae
Barosaurus sp.3, Diplodocus sp.2, Apatosaurus sp.
Barosaurus sp.3 Marsh 1890 diplodocine
Diplodocus sp.2 Marsh 1878 diplodocine
Apatosaurus sp. Marsh 1877 diplodocid
"originally thought to be Camptosaurus sp. according to J. T. Gregory, written communication, 1992)"
unclassified
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Plantae indet.2
1Kirkland and Lively 2023; 2Mathews et al. 2009; 3Williams et al. 2011