Quarry 8, Como Bluff (YPM): Tithonian, Wyoming
collected by W. Reed

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Testudines
Chelonia indet. (Latreille 1800)
1 individual
synonym of Testudines
Reptilia
"Coelurus fragilis" Marsh 1879
1 individual
Allosaurus sp. Marsh 1877
1 individual
Reptilia - Stegosauridae
Stegosaurus sp. Marsh 1877
1 individual
Reptilia - Camarasauridae
Camarasaurus sp. Cope 1877
1 individual
Reptilia
Diplodocus sp. Marsh 1878
1 individual
Reptilia - Goniopholididae
Goniopholis sp. Owen 1842
1 individual
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Wyoming County:Albany
Coordinates: 41.9° North, 106.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:37.8° North, 52.6° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Altitude:2093 meters
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Late/Upper Jurassic
Stage:Tithonian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 6
Key time interval:Tithonian
Age range of interval:149.20000 - 145.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Morrison
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: upper part of formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray,green argillaceous,silty claystone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "pale gray to green-gray silty claystone with some carbonate and mud clasts"
Environment:pond
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Museum repositories:YPM
Collectors:W. Reed
Metadata
Also known as:WY-19
Database number:39347
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2004-05-26 15:15:48 Last modified:2023-08-23 15:45:16
Access level:the public Released:2004-05-26 15:15:48
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

10618. J. H. Ostrom and J. S. McIntosh. 1999. Marsh's Dinosaurs: The Collections from Como Bluff. Yale University Press, New Haven 1-388 [M. Carrano/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]