TAPHONOMY OF THE MOTHER'S DAY QUARRY, UPPER JURASSIC MORRISON FORMATION, SOUTH-CENTRAL MONTANA, USA

The Mother's Day Quarry, in the lower part of the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation of south-central Montana, contains a low-diversity assemblage dominated by immature diplodocoid sauropods. The sauropod bones lie within a ∼3-m-thick, massive, sandy siltstone containing scattered pebbles and ca...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Palaios 2007-11, Vol.22 (6), p.651-666
Hauptverfasser:	MYERS, TIMOTHY S, STORRS, GLENN W
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Archosauria Bighorn Basin Bones Chordata clastic rocks depositional environment Diapsida Dinosaurs Disarticulation faunal studies fluvial environment Fluvial transport Fossils Geology high-energy environment Jurassic juvenile taxa lithostratigraphy Mesozoic mineral composition Montana Morrison Formation Mortality Mother's Day Quarry Paleontology preservation Quarries Reptilia Salt Wash Sandstone Member sandstone Saurischia Sauropoda Sauropodomorpha sedimentary rocks sedimentary structures Taphonomy Tetrapoda transport United States Upper Jurassic Vertebrata vertebrate Vertebrates X-ray diffraction data
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