Freeze Out Mtns. Kansas Univ. Expedition: Kimmeridgian - Tithonian, Wyoming

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Camarasauridae
Morosaurus grandis (Marsh 1877)
1 individual
recombined as Camarasaurus grandis
KUVP 1354
Reptilia
Diplodocus sp. Marsh 1878
Williston 1901
Reptilia - Stegosauridae
Stegosaurus sp. Marsh 1877
Williston 1901
Reptilia
Allosaurus fragilis Marsh 1877
Williston 1901
Antrodemus valens (Leidy 1870)
Williston 1901
synonym of Allosaurus fragilis
Creosaurus atrox Marsh 1878
Williston 1901 1 individual
synonym of Allosaurus fragilis
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Wyoming County:Converse
Coordinates: 42.0° North, 106.4° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:37.6° North, 52.5° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Late/Upper Jurassic
*Period:Late/Upper Jurassic *Epoch:Malm
*International age/stage:Kimmeridgian - Tithonian
Key time interval:Kimmeridgian - Tithonian
Age range of interval:157.30000 - 145.00000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Morrison
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: referred to in text as "Atlantosaurus Beds" and "Como Beds", and as Lower Cretaceous
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Freezeout Hills Quarry
Database number:13214
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2002-01-29 12:59:19 Last modified:2020-06-11 13:24:36
Access level:the public Released:2002-01-29 12:59:19
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

52556. S. W. Williston. 1898. The sacrum of Morosaurus. Kansas University Quarterly 7:173-175 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

52132 T. Ikejiri. 2005. Distribution and biochronology of Camarasaurus (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) from the Jurassic Morrison Formation of the Rocky Mountain region. In S. G. Lucas, K. E. Ziegler, V. W. Lueth, D. E. Owen (eds.), New Mexico Geological Society, 56th Field Conference, Geology of the Chama Basin. New Mexico Geological Society Guidebook 56:367-379 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/P. Wagner]
43875% 37840S. W. Williston. 1901. The dinosaurian genus Creosaurus, Marsh. American Journal of Science, series 4 11(11):111-114 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/J. Alroy]