Freezeout Hills Quarry O: Kimmeridgian - Tithonian, Wyoming
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Pleurosternidae
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Glyptops sp.
Marsh 1890
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Foster 2003 | 1 individual | ||||||||
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Reptilia
- Stegosauridae
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Stegosaurus sp.
Marsh 1877
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1 individual | |||||||||
| CM 36700 | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
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Apatosaurus sp.
Marsh 1877
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Foster 2003 | 1 individual | ||||||||
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Reptilia
- Crocodylia
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Crocodylia indet.
(Owen 1842)
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Foster 2003 | 1 individual | ||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Wyoming | County: | Carbon |
| Coordinates: | 42.0° North, 106.4° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 37.6° North, 52.5° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||||
| Altitude: | 2211 meters | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
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: upper third of formation | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | "channel" |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Degree of concentration: | concentrated |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
| Fragmentation: | occasional |
| Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,mechanical,field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 57896 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | K. Maguire |
| Modifier: | G. Varnham | Research group: | taphonomy,vertebrate |
| Created: | 2006-01-05 14:08:27 | Last modified: | 2022-02-07 05:54:13 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-01-05 14:08:27 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 46207. | J. S. McIntosh. 1981. Annotated catalogue of the dinosaurs (Reptilia, Archosauria) in the collections of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. Bulletin of Carnegie Museum of Natural History 18:1-67 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 75727 | K. Decker. 2012. Evaluation of Proposed Expansion of the Garden Park Fossil Area National Natural Landmark, Fremont County, Colorado for its Merit in Meeting National Significance Criteria as a National Natural Landmark in Representing Geologic History of the Jurassic Period during the Age of Reptiles in the Southern Rocky Mountain Province, 27 pp. [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 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] |
| 69484 | J. R. Foster and J. E. Peterson. 2016. First report of Apatosaurus (Diplodocidae: Apatosaurinae) from the Cleveland-Lloyd Quarry in the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation of Utah: abundance, distribution, paleoecology, and taphonomy of an endemic North American sauropod clade. Palaeoworld 25:431-443 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |