Quarry R (AMNH): Kimmeridgian, Wyoming
collected by W. Reed 1900–1903

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Theropoda
Allosaurus sp. Marsh 1877
Chure et al. 2000 2 individuals
AMNH 813
Reptilia - Camarasauridae
Camarasaurus sp. Cope 1877
Foster 2003 4 individuals
Reptilia
Apatosaurus sp. Marsh 1877
Foster 2003 2 individuals
Diplodocus sp. Marsh 1878
Foster 2003 1 individual
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Wyoming County:Albany
Coordinates: 41.9° North, 106.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:36.9° North, 51.3° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Jurassic Epoch: Late Jurassic
Stage: Kimmeridgian 10 m.y. bin: Jurassic 5
Key time interval: Kimmeridgian
Age range of interval: 154.8 - 149.2 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Morrison
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: two distinct layers
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Abundance in sediment:common
Disassociated major elements:some
Feeding/predation traces:tooth marks
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:AMNH
Collectors:W. Reed Collection dates:1900–1903
Collection method comments: juvenile sauropods and Allosaurus from lower layer; Camarasaurus and Allosaurus from upper layer
Metadata
Database number:57903
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:K. Maguire
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2006-01-05 14:47:23 Last modified:2023-11-21 16:34:40
Access level:the public Released:2006-01-05 14:47:23
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
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]

Secondary references:

30946ETE D. J. Chure, A. R. Fiorillo, and A. Jacobsen. 2000. Prey bone utilization by predatory dinosaurs in the Late Jurassic of North America, with comments on prey bone use by dinosaurs throughout the Mesozoic. Gaia 15:227-232 [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]
19565ETE J. R. Foster. 2005. New juvenile sauropod material from western Colorado, and the record of juvenile sauropods from the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation. In K. Carpenter and V. Tidwell (eds.), Thunder-Lizards: The Sauropodomorph Dinosaurs. Indiana University Press, Bloomington 141-153 [M. Carrano/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]
86556 R. Lei, E. Tschopp, C. Hendrickx, M. J. Wedel, M. A. Norell and D. W. E. Hone. 2023. Bite and tooth marks on sauropod dinosaurs from the Morrison Formation. PeerJ 11:16327:1-34 [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]
16786ETE E. Southwell and B. Breithaupt. 2004. William Harlow Reed's Quarry "R": lost locality, overlooked significance. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 24(3, suppl.):117A [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]