Bone Cabin Quarry (AMNH) (Jurassic to of the United States)

Also known as ETE Locality 1522, WY-78, Bone-Cabin Quarry, BCQ

Where: Albany County, Wyoming (42.0° N, 106.0° W: paleocoordinates 37.6° N, 52.2° W)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coarse channel fill; lenticular, coarse-grained, intraclastic, brown, gray, white sandstone

• ETE sed env 1: fluvial, ETE sed env 2: channel ETE event: ., ETE env comment: 0; channel in moderately drained floodplain
• ETE rock type adj: "whte,brn,gray", ETE lithology comments: "crse,clastic+snd lens"

Size class: macrofossils

• tooth marks on A. minimus (AMNH 675)

Collected by W. Granger, H. Osborn, W. D. Matthew, P. Kaisen in 1897-1905; reposited in the AMNH, CM

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

• ETE reference list: 478

Primary reference: M. K. Jesup. 1898. Department of Vertebrate Paleontology. Annual Report of the President, Treasurer's Report, List of Accessions, Act of Incorporation, Constitution, By-Laws and List of Members for the Year 1897 17–19; 103-104 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 22648: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 16.04.2001, edited by Matthew Carrano, Roger Benson and Philip Mannion

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Saurischia -
Sauropoda indet.6 Marsh 1878 sauropod
AMNH FARB 30192
Eusauropoda indet.6 Upchurch 1995 sauropod
AMNH FARB 366, 30066
Neosauropoda indet.6 Bonaparte 1986 sauropod
AMNH FARB 264
Macronaria indet.6 Sereno 1997 sauropod
AMNH FARB 675
 Saurischia - Camarasauridae
"Morosaurus sp." = Camarasaurus11
"Morosaurus sp." = Camarasaurus11 Cope 1877 camarasaurid
AMNH 690, 823
 Saurischia -
Apatosaurus minimus n. sp.8 Mook 1917 sauropod
AMNH 675 - type
Diplodocoidea indet.6 Upchurch 1995 sauropod
AMNH FARB 92, 259, 392, 597
 Saurischia - Diplodocidae
Diplodocidae indet.6 diplodocid
AMNH FARB 6113
"Apatosaurus excelsus" = Brontosaurus excelsus14 Marsh 1879 diplodocid
? Apatosaurus sp.7 Marsh 1877 diplodocid
CM 21748
Diplodocinae indet.6 diplodocine
AMNH FARB 642, 660
Galeamopus pabsti6 Tschopp and Mateus 2017 diplodocine
AMNH FARB 6118
Galeamopus hayi13 Holland 1924 diplodocine
AMNH 969
Diplodocus sp.7 Marsh 1878 diplodocine
CM 21749
Diplodocus longus11 Marsh 1878 diplodocine
AMNH 493, 516, 608, 655
 Saurischia - Brachiosauridae
Brachiosaurus sp.3 Riggs 1903 brachiosaurid
 Ornithischia - Stegosauridae
Stegosaurus stenops1 Marsh 1887 ornithischian
 Ornithischia -
"Camptosaurus nanus" = Camptosaurus dispar4
"Camptosaurus nanus" = Camptosaurus dispar4 Marsh 1879 ornithopod
AMNH mounted specimen
 Ornithischia - Dryosauridae
Dryosaurus altus14 Marsh 1878 ornithopod
 Theropoda - Compsognathidae
Ornitholestes hermanni n. gen. n. sp.9
Ornitholestes hermanni n. gen. n. sp.9 Osborn 1903 compsognathid
 Theropoda -
Tanycolagreus topwilsoni2, "Allosaurus fragilis" = Allosaurus fragilis14, "Creosaurus atrox" = Allosaurus fragilis10
Tanycolagreus topwilsoni2 Carpenter et al. 2005 coelurosaur
AMNH 587
"Allosaurus fragilis" = Allosaurus fragilis14 Marsh 1877 allosauroid
"or Megalosaurus"
"Creosaurus atrox" = Allosaurus fragilis10 Marsh 1877 allosauroid
AMNH FR 290, 324, 666
 Loricata - Goniopholididae
Eutretauranosuchus delfsi12 Mook 1967 crocodilian
AMNH 570 (complete skull; partial right hemimandible; partial cervical series with associated osteoderms, three isolated osteoderms, distal portion of a left femur)
 Testudinata - Pleurosternidae
Glyptops plicatulus5 Cope 1877 turtle
AMNH 336, almost complete skeleton