ammonites
Main Breakfast Bench Quarry (Jurassic of the United States)

Also known as Big Nose, WY-24

Where: Albany County, Wyoming (41.9° N, 105.9° W: paleocoordinates 37.9° N, 52.7° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Morrison Formation, Tithonian (150.8 - 145.5 Ma)

• 17 m below Dakota Sandstone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deltaic; sandstone and green mudstone

• "swampy lake shore or delta"
• above: "thick, multi-storied trough-crossbedded sandstone"

•below: "finely laminated green mudstone"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: R. T. Bakker. 1990. A new latest Jurassic vertebrate fauna, from the highest levels of the Morrison Formation at Como Bluff, Wyoming, with comments on Morrison biochronology. Part I. Biochronology. Hunteria 2(6):1-3 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 39412: authorized by Matt Carrano, entered by Matt Carrano on 28.05.2004