Carnegie Quarry D, Sheep Creek: Kimmeridgian - Tithonian, Wyoming
collected by J. L. Wortman, A. Peterson, & C. W. Gilmore 1899-1902

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
Dinosauria indet. (Owen 1842)
Hatcher 1901 1 specimen
Reptilia - Stegosauridae
Stegosaurus sp. Marsh 1877
Hatcher 1901 2 individuals
CM 106, 579–80, 598–600, 88 (now UMMP V 16779)
Reptilia - Camarasauridae
Morosaurus sp. Marsh 1878
Hatcher 1901 1 individual
synonym of Camarasaurus
CM 584
Reptilia
Brontosaurus sp. Marsh 1879
Hatcher 1901 1 individual
CM 555, 556
    = Apatosaurus excelsus Marsh 1879
McIntosh 1981
original and current combination Brontosaurus excelsus
Diplodocus carnegii Hatcher 1901
Hatcher 1901 1 individual
CM 94 (2 measurements)
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Wyoming County:Albany
Coordinates: 42.2° North, 105.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:37.7° North, 52.0° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Altitude:2133 meters
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Late/Upper Jurassic
*Period:Late/Upper Jurassic *Epoch:Malm
*International age/stage:Kimmeridgian - Tithonian
Key time interval:Kimmeridgian - Tithonian
Age range of interval:154.80000 - 145.00000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Morrison Member:Lake Como
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: 30-40 ft above Quarry E
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray argillaceous marl
Secondary lithology: "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: limestone-marl with silt and clay, gray
Environment:pond
Geology comments: ponds and swamps in deltas or floodplains
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Degree of concentration:-bonebed
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Articulated whole bodies:some
Associated major elements:some
Disassociated major elements:some
Disassociated minor elements:some
Size sorting:well
Fragmentation:occasional
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:J. L. Wortman, A. Peterson, & C. W. Gilmore Collection dates:1899-1902
Collection method comments: Collection includes materials from four successive years: J. L. Wortman 1899, A. Peterson 1900, and C. W. Gilmore 1901-2.
Metadata
Database number:13352
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2002-03-01 16:14:59 Last modified:2022-04-11 15:24:13
Access level:the public Released:2002-03-01 16:14:59
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
10490. J. B. Hatcher. 1900. The Carnegie Museum Paleontological Expeditions of 1900. Science 12(306):718-720 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

63581 B. S. Blumberg and L. Sokoloff. 1961. Coalescence of caudal vertebrae in the giant dinosaur Diplodocus. Arthritis & Rheumatism 4(6):592-601 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
81293 B. H. Breithaupt. 2013. The discovery and loss of the “colossal” Brontosaurus giganteus from the fossil fields of Wyoming (USA) and the events that led to the discovery of Diplodocus carnegii: the first mounted dinosaur on the Iberian Peninsula. In F. Torcida Fernández-Baldor & P. Huerta (ed.), VI Jornadas Internacionales sobre Paleontología de Dinosaurios y su Entorno. Libro de Resúmenes 48-50 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
68918 A. S. Coggeshall. 1951. How “Dippy” came to Piitsburgh. Carnegie Magazine 25:238-241 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
5669ETE 1424P. Dodson, A. K. Behrensmeyer, R. T. Bakker and J. S. McIntosh. 1980. Taphonomy and paleoecology of Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation. Paleobiology 6:208-232 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Carrano]
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]
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]
10488 J. B. Hatcher. 1900. Vertebral formula of Diplodocus (Marsh). Science 12(309):828-830 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
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1808 J. B. Hatcher. 1901. Some new and little known fossil vertebrates. Annals of Carnegie Museum 1(1):128-144 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Carrano]
14349ETE J. B. Hatcher. 1902. Structure of the fore limb and manus of Brontosaurus. Annals of Carnegie Museum 1(3):356-376 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
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53181 W. J. Holland. 1900. Geology and Paleontology. Annual Report of the Director for the Year Ending March 31, 1900 16-19 [M. Carrano/A. Murch/A. Murch]
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53187 W. J. Holland. 1905. The story of Diplodocus. Westminster Review 163(6):683-692 [M. Carrano/A. Murch]
53188 W. J. Holland. 1909. Section of Paleontology. Twelfth Annual Report of the Director for the Year Ending March 31, 1909 26-32 [M. Carrano/A. Murch/M. Carrano]
52132 T. Ikejiri. 2005. Distribution and biochronology of Camarasaurus (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) from the Jurassic Morrison Formation of the Rocky Mountain region. In S. G. Lucas, K. E. Ziegler, V. W. Lueth, D. E. Owen (eds.), New Mexico Geological Society, 56th Field Conference, Geology of the Chama Basin. New Mexico Geological Society Guidebook 56:367-379 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/P. Wagner]
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]
78581 J. S. McIntosh. 1990. The second Jurassic dinosaur rush. Earth Sciences History 9(1):22-27 [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]