Blue Nimbus Quarry, Como Bluff: Kimmeridgian - Tithonian, Wyoming
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Dipnoi
- Ceratodontidae
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Ceratodus informal sp. 2
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1 individual | |||||||||
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Ceratodus sp.
Agassiz 1838
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2 individuals | |||||||||
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Reptilia
- Goniopholididae
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Goniopholis sp.
Owen 1842
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4 individuals | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Eutriconodonta
- Triconodontidae
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Alticonodontinae indet.
Fox 1976
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1 individual | |||||||||
| "Alticonodontid" | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Wyoming | County: | Albany |
| Coordinates: | 41.9° North, 106.0° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 37.5° North, 52.1° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
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: | Indian Fort | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: located at contact between Unit B and Unit C | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | green poorly lithified siltstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "a semi resistant green siltstone" | |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
| Disassociated major elements: | some |
| Disassociated minor elements: | some |
| Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | WDIS Quarry 20c | ||
| Database number: | 231563 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2023-08-24 08:33:05 | Last modified: | 2023-08-24 08:33:05 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2023-08-24 08:33:05 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 85332. | M. V. Connely. 2002. Stratigraphy and Paleoecology of the Morrison Formation, Como Bluff, Wyoming 1-109 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |