Louise Quarry: Kimmeridgian - Tithonian, Wyoming
collected by J. Siegwarth & J. Filla 1989

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
Allosaurus sp. Marsh 1877
Turner and Peterson 1999 2 individuals
Reptilia - Megalosauridae
Edmarka rex Bakker et al. 1992
1 individual
synonym of Torvosaurus tanneri
Reptilia
Apatosaurus sp. Marsh 1877
Turner and Peterson 1999 1 individual
Reptilia - Camarasauridae
Camarasaurus sp. Cope 1877
Turner and Peterson 1999 1 individual
Reptilia - Stegosauridae
Stegosaurus sp. Marsh 1877
Turner and Peterson 1999 1 individual
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, 52.2° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
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:Talking Rocks
Local section:Nail-Louise Local bed:44 m
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: mudstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:wet floodplain
Geology comments: a poorly drained floodplain
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:medium
Associated major elements:some
Fragmentation:occasional
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:J. Siegwarth & J. Filla Collection dates:1989
Metadata
Also known as:WY-22
Database number:49628
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-04-21 06:43:45 Last modified:2019-07-19 15:40:20
Access level:the public Released:2005-04-21 06:43:45
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
13292.ETE R. T. Bakker, J. Siegwarth, D. Kralis and J. Filla. 1992. Edmarka rex, a new, gigantic theropod dinosaur from the middle Morrison Formation, Late Jurassic of the Como Bluff outcrop region. Hunteria 2(9):1-24 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

65427 R. T. Bakker. 1996. The real Jurassic park: dinosaurs and habitats at Como Bluff, Wyoming. In M. Morales (ed.), The Continental Jurassic. Museum of Northern Arizona Bulletin 60:35-49 [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]
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]
49550 M. Hanson and P. J. Makovicky. 2013. A new specimen of Torvoaurus tanneri originally collected by Elmer Riggs. Historical Biology 26(6):775-784 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant/M. Carrano]
14966ETE C. A. Miles and D. W. Hamblin. 1999. Historical update: paleontological excavation in the Como Region. In J. H. Ostrom & J. S. McIntosh, Marsh's Dinosaurs. Yale University Press, New Haven vii-xiv [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]