Carnegie Quarry D, Sheep Creek: Kimmeridgian - Tithonian, Wyoming
collected by Wortman, Reed, Coggeshall, Peterson, Gilmore 1899–1901

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Stegosauridae
Stegosaurus sp. Marsh 1877
Hatcher 1901 1 individual
Reptilia
Diplodocus carnegii n. sp. Hatcher 1901
Hatcher 1901 2 individuals
CM 84, 33985 (4 measurements)
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Wyoming County:Albany
Coordinates: 42.2° North, 105.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:37.7° North, 52.0° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
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
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: In the middle of the formation in Zone 4
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:lacustrine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:CM
Collectors:Wortman, Reed, Coggeshall, Peterson, Gilmore Collection dates:1899–1901
Metadata
Also known as:Quarry 3, Quarry D(3)
Database number:57897
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:K. Maguire, M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2006-01-05 14:27:10 Last modified:2023-08-23 13:40:55
Access level:the public Released:2006-01-05 14:27:10
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
10490. J. B. Hatcher. 1900. The Carnegie Museum Paleontological Expeditions of 1900. Science 12(306):718-720 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

63499 Anonymous. 1901. Fossil brontosaur found almost perfect. Chicago Tribune [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
54451 Anonymous. 1938. The roofed lizard. Carnegie Magazine 12(7):213-216 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
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]
63581 B. S. Blumberg and L. Sokoloff. 1961. Coalescence of caudal vertebrae in the giant dinosaur Diplodocus. Arthritis & Rheumatism 4(6):592-601 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
77734 B. H. Breithaupt. 1990. Biography of William Harlow Reed: the story of a frontier fossil collector. Earth Sciences History 9(1):6-13 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
81293 B. H. Breithaupt. 2013. The discovery and loss of the “colossal” Brontosaurus giganteus from the fossil fields of Wyoming (USA) and the events that led to the discovery of Diplodocus carnegii: the first mounted dinosaur on the Iberian Peninsula. In F. Torcida Fernández-Baldor & P. Huerta (ed.), VI Jornadas Internacionales sobre Paleontología de Dinosaurios y su Entorno. Libro de Resúmenes 48-50 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
68918 A. S. Coggeshall. 1951. How “Dippy” came to Piitsburgh. Carnegie Magazine 25:238-241 [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]
14579ETE C. W. Gilmore. 1932. On a newly mounted skeleton of Diplodocus in the United States National Museum. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 81(18):1-21 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
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53143 W. J. Holland. 1916. [It is with sorrow that we record the death, on April 24, of Mr. William H. Reed]. Annals of Carnegie Museum 10:2-3 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
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46207 J. S. McIntosh. 1981. Annotated catalogue of the dinosaurs (Reptilia, Archosauria) in the collections of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. Bulletin of Carnegie Museum of Natural History 18:1-67 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
78581 J. S. McIntosh. 1990. The second Jurassic dinosaur rush. Earth Sciences History 9(1):22-27 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
63169 S. R. McKelvey. 1920. The Dinosauria with Special Reference to the Dinosaur of Colorado 1-20 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
65122 E. Stromer. 1936. Ergebnisse der Forschungsreisen Prof. E. Stromers in den Wüsten Ägyptens. VII. Baharîje-Kessel und -Stufe mit deren Fauna und Flora. Eine ergänzende Zusammenfassung [Results of the expeditions of Professor E. Stromer in the Egyptian deserts. VII. Baharîje basin and layer with their fauna and flora. A complementary summary]. Abhandlungen der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften Mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliche Abteilung, Neue Folge 7:1-102 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]