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The Armored Dinosaurs. Indiana University Press. pp. 76– 102. ISBN 978-0-253-33964-5. Carpenter, K. and Wilson, Y. 2008. A new species of Camptosaurus (Ornithopoda: Dinosauria) from the Morrison Formation (Upper Jurassic) of Dinosaur National Monument, Utah, and a biomechanical analysis of its forelimb. Annals of the Carnegie Museum 76:227-263.
The Late Jurassic dinosaurs from the Morrison Formation, on the Colorado Plateau in the Western U.S. Pages in category "Dinosaurs of the Morrison Formation" The following 52 pages are in this category, out of 52 total.
The Morrison Formation records a very diverse dinosaur fauna in addition to fossils of other animals and plants. It is arguably most famous for its plentiful sauropod fauna. In particular, the Howe-Stephens Quarry from which Ardetosaurus is known has yielded associated skeletons of the sauropods Diplodocus and Camarasaurus , the armored ...
The Morrison Formation is a distinctive sequence of Upper Jurassic sedimentary rock found in the western United States which has been the most fertile source of dinosaur fossils in North America. It is composed of mudstone , sandstone , siltstone , and limestone and is light gray, greenish gray, or red.
The Morrison Formation is a sequence of shallow marine and alluvial sediments which, according to radiometric dating, ranges between 156.3 million years old at its base, [10] to 146.8 million years old at the top, [11] which places it in the late Oxfordian, Kimmeridgian, and early Tithonian stages of the Late Jurassic period.
Prehistoric fauna of the Morrison Formation— living during the Kimmeridgian and Tithonian ages of Late Jurassic North America. The fossilized Late Jurassic animals are from its paleontological sites , located primarily in Colorado and Utah of the Western United States .
Alcovasaurus, alternatively known as Miragaia longispinus, is a genus of herbivorous stegosaurian dinosaur that lived in the Late Jurassic. It was found in the Morrison Formation of Natrona County, Wyoming, United States. [1] The type species is Stegosaurus longispinus, later given the genus Alcovasaurus.
The closest is the Dinosaur Genera List, compiled by biological nomenclature expert George Olshevsky, which was first published online in 1995 and was regularly updated until June 2021. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The most authoritative general source in the field is the second (2004) edition of The Dinosauria .