Homestead Quarry, OMNH V1692: Kimmeridgian - Tithonian, Oklahoma
collected by K. Smith & R. Whitten 2012

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
Dinosauria indet. (Owen 1842)
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Oklahoma County:Cimarron
Coordinates: 36.9° North, 102.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:32.1° North, 50.5° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Jurassic Epoch: Late Jurassic
Stage: Kimmeridgian - Tithonian 10 m.y. bin: Jurassic 5 - Jurassic 6
Key time interval: Kimmeridgian - Tithonian
Age range of interval: 154.8 - 145 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Morrison Member:Boise
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: 23 m above the J5 unconformity
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:shelly/skeletal lime mudstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "The quarry is associated with an ostracodal micrite"
Environment:pond
Geology comments: "a freshwater palustrine environment or small pond"
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Collectors:K. Smith & R. Whitten Collection dates:2012
Metadata
Also known as:Black Mesa
Database number:231016
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2023-07-31 13:37:36 Last modified:2023-07-31 14:01:21
Access level:the public Released:2023-07-31 13:37:36
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
85444. D. R. Richmond, T. C. Hunt, and R. L. Cifelli. 2020. Stratigraphy and sedimentology of the Morrison Formation in the western panhandle of Oklahoma with reference to the historical Stovall dinosaur quarries. Journal of Geology 128:477-515 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]