Wonderland North (SDSM V951): Kimmeridgian - Tithonian, South Dakota
collected 1993
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
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Diplodocus sp.
Marsh 1878
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Foster 2003 | 1 individual | ||||||||
| SDSM 30511, caudal centrum | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | South Dakota | County: | Meade |
| Coordinates: | 44.2° North, 103.3° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 39.3° North, 49.1° 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 | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Zone 4 | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | brown,gray,green,red silty claystone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "dark brown to reddish- and greenish-brown silty claystone | |
| Environment: | wet floodplain |
| Geology comments: well drained floodplain | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,mechanical,field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
| Museum repositories: | SDSM | Collection dates: | 1993 |
Metadata
| Also known as: | SD-5 | ||
| Database number: | 57904 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | K. Maguire |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | ||
| Created: | 2006-01-05 14:53:34 | Last modified: | 2016-03-11 13:30:09 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-01-05 14:53:34 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 42580. | J. R. Foster. 1996. Fossil vertebrate localities in the Morrison Formation (Upper Jurassic) of western South Dakota. In M. Morales (ed.), The Continental Jurassic. Museum of Northern Arizona Bulletin 60:255-263 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 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] |
| 13281 | ETE | 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] |