Also known as Beaver Creek

Where: Big Horn County, Wyoming (44.5° N, 107.8° W: paleocoordinates 40.3° N, 53.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

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

• upper 15 m

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: crevasse splay; fine-grained, quartzose sandstone and sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression, trace

Collected by E. Kvale

Collection methods: 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: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 93138: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 05.01.2010

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