SDSM V9137, MIA Quarry: Kimmeridgian - Tithonian, Wyoming
collected 1978
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
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? Barosaurus sp.
Marsh 1890
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1 individual | |||||||||
| SDSM 25217 | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Theropoda
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Theropoda indet.
(Marsh 1881)
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Foster 2003 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Wyoming | County: | Crook |
| Coordinates: | 44.5° North, 104.7° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 39.8° North, 50.3° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||||
| 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 |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | mudstone |
| Secondary lithology: | siltstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "a silty layer in a unit consisting mostly of mudstone and limestone" | |
| Environment: | wet floodplain |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Degree of concentration: | dispersed |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | medium |
| Associated major elements: | all |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,mechanical,field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | SDSM | Collection dates: | 1978 |
Metadata
| Also known as: | WY-12, Inyan Kara Creek | ||
| Database number: | 49634 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2005-04-21 07:41:31 | Last modified: | 2023-08-23 14:40:55 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-04-21 07:41:31 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 81844. | J. R. Foster and J. E. Martin. 1994. Late Jurassic dinosaur localities in the Morrison Formation of northeastern Wyoming. In G. E. Nelson (ed.), Wyoming Geological Association Forty-Fourth Annual Field Conference. Wyoming Geological Association Guidebook 44:115-126 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 13295 | ETE | J. R. Foster. 1996. Sauropod dinosaurs of the Morrison Formation (Upper Jurassic), Black Hills, South Dakota and Wyoming. Contributions to Geology, University of Wyoming 31(1):1-25 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 15179 | ETE | 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] |