Paleoecology of the Quarry 9 vertebrate assemblage from Como Bluff, Wyoming (Morrison Formation, Late Jurassic)

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 237, Issue 2-4, 2006, Pages 147-159

  Carrano, Matthew T ^a   Velez Juarbe, Jorge ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

Dinosaurs; Food web; Mammals; Paleoenvironment; Taphonomy

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CLAYSTONE; FOOD WEB; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; TAXONOMY; VERTEBRATE;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WYOMING;

CROCODYLIDAE (ALL CROCODILES); MAMMALIA; REPTILIA; TESTUDINES; THEROPODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33746165597     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2005.11.018     Document Type: Article

References (54)

1. Blob R.W. Relative hydrodynamic dispersal potentials of soft-shelled turtle elements: implications for interpreting skeletal sorting in assemblages of non-mammalian terrestrial vertebrates. Palaios 12 (1997) 151-164
2. Blob R.W., and Fiorillo A.R. The significance of vertebrate microfossil size and shape distributions for faunal abundance reconstructions: a Late Cretaceous sample. Paleobiology 22 (1996) 422-435
3. Blob R.W., Carrano M.T., Rogers R.R., Forster C.A., and Espinoza N.R. New taxonomic and taphonomic data from the herpetofauna of the Judith River Formation (Campanian), Montana. J. Vertebr. Paleontol. 17 (1997) 32-33A
4. Chure D.J., and Evans S.E. A new occurrence of Cteniogenys, with comments on its distribution and abundance. Mod. Geol. 23 (1998) 49-55
5. Chure D.J., Engelmann G.F., and Madsen S.K. Non-mammalian microvertebrates from the Morrison Formation (Upper Jurassic, Kimmeridgian) of Dinosaur National Monument, Utah-Colorado, USA. J. Vertebr. Paleontol. 9 (1989) 16-17A
6. Currie P.J., Rigby Jr. J.K., and Sloan R.E. Theropod teeth from the Judith River Formation of southern Alberta, Canada. In: Carpenter K., and Currie P.J. (Eds). Dinosaur Systematics: Perspectives and Approaches (1990), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 107-125
7. Demko T.M., and Parrish J.T. Paleoclimatic setting of the Upper Jurassic Morrison. In: Carpenter K., Chure D.J., and Kirkland J.I. (Eds). The Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation: An Interdisciplinary Study. Mod. Geol. 22 (1998) 283-296
8. Dodson P. The importance of small bones in paleoecological interpretation. Contrib. Geol., Univ. Wyoming 12 (1973) 15-19
9. Dodson P., Behrensmeyer A.K., and Bakker R.T. Taphonomy of the Morrison Formation (Kimmeridgian-Portlandian) and Cloverly Formation (Aptian-Albian) of the western United States. Mém. Soc. Géol. Fr. 139 (1980) 87-93
10. Dodson P., Bakker R.T., and McIntosh J.S. Taphonomy and paleoecology of the dinosaur beds of the Jurassic Morrison Formation. Paleobiology 6 (1980) 208-232
11. Dodson P., Bakker R.T., and Behrensmeyer A.K. Paleoecology of the dinosaur-bearing Morrison Formation. Natl. Geogr. Soc. Res. Repts. 15 (1983) 145-156
12. Engelmann G.F., Chure D.J., and Fiorillo A.R. The implications of a dry climate for the paleoecology of the fauna of the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation. Sediment. Geol. 167 (2004) 297-308
13. Evans S.E. The skull of Cteniogenys, a choristodere (Reptilia: Archosauromorpha) from the Middle Jurassic of Oxfordshire. Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 103 (1990) 391-412
14. Evans S.E., and Chure D.J. Upper Jurassic lizards from the Morrison Formation of Dinosaur National Monument, Utah. In: Gillette D.D. (Ed). Vertebrate Paleontology in Utah. Utah Geol. Surv. Misc. Publ. vol. 99-1 (1999) 151-159
15. Evans S.E., and Milner A.R. Frogs and salamanders from the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation (Quarry Nine, Como Bluff) of North America. J. Vertebr. Paleontol. 13 (1993) 24-30
16. Evans S.E., Lally C., Chure D.J., Elder A., and Maisano J.A. A Late Jurassic salamander (Amphibia: Caudata) from the Morrison Formation of North America. Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 143 (2005) 599-616
17. Fiorillo A.R., and Currie P.J. Theropod teeth from the Judith River Formation (Upper Cretaceous) of south-central Montana. J. Vertebr. Paleontol. 14 (1994) 74-80
18. Foster J.R. Taphonomy and paleoecology of a microvertebrate assemblage from the Morrison Formation (Upper Jurassic) of the Black Hills, Crook County, Wyoming. Brigham Young Univ. Geol. Stud. 46 (2001) 13-33
19. Foster J.R. Paleoecological analysis of the vertebrate fauna of the Morrison Formation (Upper Jurassic), Rocky Mountain region, U.S.A. N. M. Mus. Natl. Hist. Sci. Bull. 23 (2003) 1-95
20. Foster J.R., and Trujillo K.C. New occurrences of Cteniogenys (Reptilia, Choristodera) in the Late Jurassic of Wyoming and South Dakota. Brigham Young Univ. Geol. Stud. 45 (2000) 11-18
21. Fraser N.C., and Wu X.-C. Sphenodontians from the Brushy Basin Member of the Morrison Formation in Dinosaur National Monument. Mod. Geol. 23 (1998) 17-34
22. Gilmore C.W. A new rhynchocephalians reptile from the Jurassic of Wyoming, with notes on the fauna of "Quarry 9". Proc. U. S. Natl. Mus. 37 (1909) 35-42
23. Gilmore C.W. The fossil lizards of North America. Mem. Natl. Acad. Sci. 22 (1928) 1-197
24. Göhlich U.B., Chiappe L.M., Clark J.M., and Sues H.-D. The systematic position of the Late Jurassic alleged dinosaur Macelognathus (Crocodylomorpha: Sphenosuchia). Can. J. Earth Sci. 42 (2005) 307-321
25. Hasiotis S.T., Fiorillo A.R., and Hanna R.R. Preliminary report on borings in Jurassic dinosaur bones: evidence for invertebrate-vertebrate interactions. In: Gillette D.D. (Ed). Vertebrate Paleontology in Utah. Utah Geol. Surv. Misc. Publ. vol. 99-1 (1999) 193-200
26. Hecht M.K., and Estes R. Fossil amphibians from Quarry Nine. Postilla 46 (1960) 1-19
27. Henrici A.C. New anurans from the Rainbow Park Microsite, dinosaur National monument, Utah. Mod. Geol. 23 (1998) 1-16
28. Kielan-Jaworowska K., Cifelli R.L., and Luo Z.-X. Mammals from the Age of Dinosaurs: Origins, Evolution, and Structure (2004), Columbia University Press, New York
29. Kirkland J.I. Upper Jurassic and Cretaceous lungfish tooth plates from the Western Interior, the last dipnoan faunas of North America. Hunteria 2 (1987) 1-16
30. Kirkland J.I., Mantzios C., Rasmussen T.E., and Callison G. Taphonomy and environments; Fruita Paleont. Resource Area, Upper Jurassic, Morrison Formation, W. Colorado. J. Vertebr. Paleontol. 10 (1990) 31A
31. Marsh O.C. Notice of new Jurassic mammals representing two new orders. Am. J. Sci. ser. 3 20 (1880) 235-239
32. Marsh O.C. American Jurassic mammals. Am. J. Sci. ser. 3 33 (1887) 327-348
33. Martin T. Dryolestidae (Eupantotheria, Mammalia) aus dem Oberen Jura con Portugal. Abh. d. Senck. Naturf. Ges. 550 (1999) 1-119
34. Martin J.E., and Foster J.R. First Jurassic mammals from the Black Hills, northeastern Wyoming. Mod. Geol. 23 (1998) 381-392
35. Moodie R.L. An American Jurassic frog. Am. J. Sci. ser. 4 34 (1912) 286-288
36. Ostrom J.H. Osteology of Deinonychus antirrhopus, an unusual theropod from the Lower Cretaceous of Montana. Peabody Mus. Bull. 30 (1969) 1-165
37. Ostrom J.H. On the systematic position of Macelognathus vagans. Postilla 153 (1971) 1-10
38. Ostrom J.H., and McIntosh J.S. Marsh's Dinosaurs: The Collection from Como Bluff (1999), Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut
39. Parrish J.T., Peterson F., and Turner C.E. Jurassic "savannah"-plant taphonomy and climate of the Morrison Formation (Upper Jurassic, western USA). Sediment. Geol. 167 (2004) 137-162
40. Prothero D.R. New Jurassic mammals from Como Bluff, Wyoming, and the interrelationship of non-tribosphenic Theria. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 167 (1981) 281-325
41. Prothero D.R., and Estes R. Late Jurassic lizards from Como Bluff, Wyoming and their palaeobiogeographic significance. Nature 286 (1980) 484-486
42. Ross C.A. Population study of charophyte species, Morrison Formation, Colorado. J. Paleontol. 34 (1960) 717-729
43. Simpson G.G. Mesozoic mammalia: I. American triconodonts: Part 1. Am. J. Sci. ser. 5 10 (1925) 145-165
44. Simpson G.G. Mesozoic mammalia: I. American triconodonts: Part 2. Am. J. Sci. ser. 5 10 (1925) 334-358
45. Simpson G.G. Mesozoic mammalia: II. Tinodon and its allies. Am. J. Sci. ser. 5 10 (1925) 451-470
46. Simpson G.G. The fauna of Quarry Nine. Am. J. Sci. ser. 5 12 (1926) 1-11
47. Simpson G.G. American terrestrial Rhynchocephalia. Am. J. Sci. ser. 5 12 (1926) 12-16
48. Simpson G.G. Mesozoic mammalia: VI. Genera of Morrison pantotheres. Am. J. Sci. ser. 5 13 (1927) 409-416
49. Simpson G.G. Mesozoic Mammalia: VII. Taxonomy of Morrison multituberculates. Am. J. Sci. ser. 5 14 (1928) 36-38
50. Small B.J., and Carpenter K. Upper Jurassic microvertebrates from the "Small Quarry," Garden Park, Colorado. J. Vertebr. Paleontol. 17 (1997) 76A-77A
51. Trujillo K.C. Small reptiles from the top of the morrison formation, ninemile hill, carbon county. Tate '99 Field Conference: Fossil Reptiles of Wyoming (1999) 16
52. Turner C.E., and Peterson F. Biostratigraphy of dinosaurs in the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation of the Western Interior, U.S.A. In: Gillette D.D. (Ed). Vertebrate Paleontology in Utah. Utah Geol. Surv. Misc. Publ. vol. 99-1 (1999) 77-114
53. Turner C.E., and Peterson F. Reconstruction of the extinct ecosystem of the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation. Sediment. Geol. 167 (2004) 309-355
54. Voorhies M.R. Taphonomy and population dynamics of an Early Pliocene vertebrate fauna, Knox County, Nebraska. Contrib. Geol., Univ.Wyoming 1 (1969) 1-69