Also known as ETE Locality 1524, Beside Sauropod, Sauropod, WY-98
Where: Hot Springs County, Wyoming (43.4° N, 108.1° W: paleocoordinates 38.9° N, 53.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Morrison Formation, Late/Upper Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 150.8 Ma)
• originally entered as Cloverly (Aptian-Albian) but later abstract says Morrison; quarry has been placed just below the Kimm-Tith boundary
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: wet floodplain; nodular, gray, green, calcareous mudstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected by P. Watkins in 1992–1997, 2000–2005
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ), mechanical,
• ETE Size: .; ETE reference list: 478, ; ETE museum list:
Primary reference: C. A. Bjoraker and M. T. Naus. 1996. A summary of Morrison Formation (Jurassic: Kimmeridgian–Tithonian) geology and paleontology, with notice of a new dinosaur locality in the Bighorn Basin (USA). In C. E. Bowen, S. C. Kirkwood, & T. S. Miller (eds.), Wyoming Geological Association Guidebook, Forty-Seventh Annual Field Conference. Resources of the Bighorn Basin 297-307 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 22650: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 16.04.2001, edited by Matthew Carrano and Philip Mannion
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Allosaurus sp.3 Marsh 1877 allosauroid large teeth; WDC BS-618, 621, 643, 691, 700, 715, 716, 725, 749, 798, 820, 835–837, 846, 915
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