SDSM V922, Lightning Rod Butte Quarry: Kimmeridgian - Tithonian, Wyoming
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
- Pleurosternidae
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? Glyptops sp.
Marsh 1890
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1 specimen | |||||||||
shell fragment | ||||||||||
= Glyptops sp.
Marsh 1890
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Foster 2003 | |||||||||
Reptilia
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Othnielia sp.
Galton 1977
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1 specimen | |||||||||
nomen dubium belonging to Ornithopoda | ||||||||||
tooth, SDSM 25240 | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Wyoming | County: | Crook |
Coordinates: | 44.2° North, 104.4° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 39.5° North, 50.1° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Late/Upper Jurassic |
Key time interval: | Kimmeridgian - Tithonian | ||
Age range of interval: | 157.30000 - 145.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Morrison | ||||
Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: near top of formation |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | "cross stratification",very fine,quartzose,intraclastic muddy,sandy conglomerate |
Secondary lithology: | sandstone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Environment: | coarse channel fill |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Fragmentation: | frequent |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | surface (in situ),field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Museum repositories: | SDSM |
Metadata
Also known as: | WY-10 | ||
Database number: | 225937 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2022-06-08 15:53:50 | Last modified: | 2023-08-23 14:40:26 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2022-06-08 15:53:50 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
81844. | 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] |
Secondary references:
15179 | ETE | 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] |
13281 | ETE | 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] |