Also known as FRDT

Where: Big Horn County, Wyoming (44.5° N, 107.8° W: paleocoordinates 35.6° N, 47.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Gypsum Spring Formation, Late/Upper Bajocian (171.6 - 167.7 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; shelly/skeletal wackestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collected by E. Kvale in 1999; reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ),

Primary reference: E. P. Kvale, S. T. Hasiotis, D. L. Mickelson and G. D. Johnson. 2001. Middle and Late Jurassic dinosaur fossil-bearing horizons: implications for dinosaur paleoecology, northeastern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming. In C. L. Hill (ed), Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, 61st Annual Meeting, Bozeman. Guidebook for the Field Trips: Mesozoic and Cenozoic Paleontology in the Western Plains and Rocky Mountains, Museum of the Rockies Occasional Paper 3:17-45 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 85279: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 09.12.2008

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