SDSM V922, Lightning Rod Butte Quarry: Kimmeridgian - Tithonian, Wyoming

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Pleurosternidae
? Glyptops sp. Marsh 1890
1 specimen
shell fragment
    = Glyptops sp. Marsh 1890
Foster 2003
Reptilia
Othnielia sp. Galton 1977
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:

15179ETE 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]
13281ETE 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]