Also known as Big Canyon Quarry, WY-27
Where: Carbon County, Wyoming (41.9° N, 106.1° W: paleocoordinates 37.5° N, 52.9° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Brushy Basin Member (Morrison Formation), Kimmeridgian to Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 145.5 Ma)
• low in formation
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: "channel"; medium-grained sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Lakes; reposited in the YPM
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,
Primary reference: O. C. Marsh. 1879. Notice of new Jurassic reptiles. American Journal of Science and Arts 18:501-505 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 39337: authorized by Matt Carrano, entered by Matt Carrano on 26.05.2004, edited by Richard Butler