Quarry C, Como Bluff (YPM): Kimmeridgian - Tithonian, Wyoming
collected by F. Brown 1886

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
Antrodemus valens (Leidy 1870)
1 individual
USNM 8367
    = Allosaurus sp. Marsh 1877
Foster 2003
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
Altitude:2072 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 Member:Lake Como
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Unit A
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Fragmentation:occasional
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Museum repositories:USNM
Collectors:F. Brown Collection dates:1886
Metadata
Database number:39373
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2004-05-27 06:23:21 Last modified:2023-08-23 15:44:24
Access level:the public Released:2004-05-27 06:23:21
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

10608.ETE C. W. Gilmore. 1920. Osteology of the carnivorous Dinosauria in the United States National Museum, with special reference to the genera Antrodemus (Allosaurus) and Ceratosaurus. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 110:1-154 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

85332 M. V. Connely. 2002. Stratigraphy and Paleoecology of the Morrison Formation, Como Bluff, Wyoming 1-109 [M. Carrano/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]
10618 J. H. Ostrom and J. S. McIntosh. 1999. Marsh's Dinosaurs: The Collections from Como Bluff. Yale University Press, New Haven 1-388 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]