Red Mountain (Jurassic to of the United States)

Where: Carbon County, Wyoming (41.8° N, 106.6° W: paleocoordinates 37.4° N, 52.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by W. Reed in the 1890s; reposited in the UW

Collection methods: quarrying,

Primary reference: K. Hunter and B. Breithaupt. 2005. Rising from the dust: an Allosaurus' journey to the 21st century. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 25(3, suppl.):72A-73A [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 55330: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 10.10.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Theropoda -
Allosaurus sp. Marsh 1877 allosauroid