AMNH 03-30, Horse Coulée: Kimmeridgian - Tithonian, Montana
collected by B. Brown 1903
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Camarasauridae
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Camarasaurus sp.
Cope 1877
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Foster 2003 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
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Reptilia
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Sauropoda indet.
Marsh 1878
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| AMNH 5855 | ||||||||||
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= Diplodocus sp.
Marsh 1878
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Foster 2003 | |||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Montana | County: | Big Horn |
| Coordinates: | 45.5° North, 108.1° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 41.2° North, 53.1° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Altitude: | 1097 meters | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Late/Upper Jurassic |
| Key time interval: | Kimmeridgian - Tithonian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 154.80000 - 145.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Morrison | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: "probably Unit III" | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | claystone |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,mechanical,field collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
| Museum repositories: | AMNH | ||
| Collectors: | B. Brown | Collection dates: | 1903 |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Horse Coulee, Beauvais Creek | ||
| Database number: | 50714 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2005-05-19 08:42:46 | Last modified: | 2010-12-02 20:45:38 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-05-19 08:42:46 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 13525. | ETE | J. H. Ostrom. 1970. Stratigraphy and paleontology of the Cloverly Formation (Lower Cretaceous) of the Bighorn Basin area, Wyoming and Montana. Peabody Museum Bulletin 35:1-234 [M. Carrano/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] |