Como Bluff (AMNH 222): Kimmeridgian - Tithonian, Wyoming
collected by J. L. Wortman, W. C. Knight 1897
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
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Allosaurus sp.
Marsh 1877
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Matthew 1915 | |||||||||
| teeth | ||||||||||
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Brontosaurus sp.
Marsh 1879
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Matthew 1915 | 1 individual | ||||||||
| AMNH FR 222 | ||||||||||
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= Apatosaurinae indet.
Janensch 1929
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Lei et al. 2023 | |||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Wyoming | County: | Carbon |
| Coordinates: | 41.9° North, 106.1° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 37.5° North, 52.2° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Late/Upper Jurassic |
| Key time interval: | Kimmeridgian - Tithonian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 154.80000 - 145.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Morrison |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | wet floodplain |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Degree of concentration: | dispersed |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
| Associated major elements: | all |
| Fragmentation: | occasional |
| Feeding/predation traces: | tooth marks |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,mechanical,survey of museum collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis | ||
| Museum repositories: | AMNH | ||
| Collectors: | J. L. Wortman, W. C. Knight | Collection dates: | 1897 |
Metadata
| Database number: | 74000 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2007-07-16 11:01:46 | Last modified: | 2023-11-21 16:44:19 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2007-07-16 11:01:46 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 54059. | H. F. Osborn. 1904. Fossil wonders of the west. The dinosaurs of the Bone-Cabin Quarry, being the first description of the greatest "find" of extinct animals ever made. Century Magazine 68:680-694 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 15179 | ETE | J. R. Foster. 2003. Paleoecological analysis of the vertebrate fauna of the Morrison Formation (Upper Jurassic), Rocky Mountain region, U.S.A. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 23:1-95 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 69484 | J. R. Foster and J. E. Peterson. 2016. First report of Apatosaurus (Diplodocidae: Apatosaurinae) from the Cleveland-Lloyd Quarry in the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation of Utah: abundance, distribution, paleoecology, and taphonomy of an endemic North American sauropod clade. Palaeoworld 25:431-443 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 86556 | R. Lei, E. Tschopp, C. Hendrickx, M. J. Wedel, M. A. Norell and D. W. E. Hone. 2023. Bite and tooth marks on sauropod dinosaurs from the Morrison Formation. PeerJ 11:16327:1-34 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 51984 | W. D. Matthew. 1905. The mounted skeleton of Brontosaurus. The American Museum Journal 5(2):63-70 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 24837 | ETE | W. D. Matthew. 1915. Dinosaurs, with Special Reference to the American Museum Collections. American Museum of Natural History, New York 1-162 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |