Quarry 2, Como Bluff (YPM) (Jurassic to of the United States)

Also known as WY-23

Where: Albany County, Wyoming (41.9° N, 106.1° W: paleocoordinates 37.4° N, 52.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Morrison Formation, Kimmeridgian to Kimmeridgian (157.3 - 145.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: wet floodplain; mudstone

• poorly drained floodplain

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by W. Reed; reposited in the YPM

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: J. H. Ostrom and J. S. McIntosh. 1999. Marsh's Dinosaurs: The Collections from Como Bluff. Yale University Press, New Haven 1-388 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 39339: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 26.05.2004

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Saurischia - Diplodocidae
Apatosaurus sp.
Apatosaurus sp. Marsh 1877 diplodocid