Como Bluff

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Como Bluff is a famous dinosaur fossil site in Wyoming known for its rich Late Jurassic vertebrate remains and its central role in the 19th-century “Bone Wars.”

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Predicate Object
instanceOf dinosaur fossil site
fossil locality
associatedWith Bone Wars
Edward Drinker Cope
Othniel Charles Marsh
country United States of America
discoveredBy William Edward Carlin
William Harlow Reed
discoveredIn 1877
geologicalAge Late Jurassic
hasElevation approximately 2,000 meters
hasLength approximately 5 kilometers
hasLithology mudstone
sandstone
siltstone
hasNearbyRailroad Union Pacific Railroad
hasResearchField paleontology
vertebrate paleontology
hasStratigraphicUnit Morrison Formation
hasTypeOfFossils dinosaur bones
microvertebrate remains
vertebrate fossils
knownFor dinosaur fossils
mammal fossils
ornithopod fossils
pterosaur remains
rich Late Jurassic vertebrate remains
role in the Bone Wars
sauropod dinosaur skeletons
stegosaur fossils
theropod fossils
locatedIn Carbon County, Wyoming
Wyoming
locatedNear Medicine Bow, Wyoming
paleoclimate semi-arid floodplain
paleoenvironment fluvial floodplain
partOf Morrison Formation
significance key site in the history of American paleontology
one of the earliest major dinosaur quarries in North America
timeOfMajorExcavations 1870s
1880s
late 19th century
yieldedTaxon Allosaurus
Apatosaurus
Apatosaurus
surface form: Brontosaurus

Camarasaurus
Diplodocus
Dryosaurus
Othnielosaurus
Stegosaurus

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Allosaurus fossilSite Como Bluff