Paleobiota of the Morrison Formation

The distinctive banding of the Morrison Formation, a group of rock layers that occur throughout Dinosaur National Monument and the source of fossils like those found at the Dinosaur Quarry.

The Morrison Formation is a distinctive sequence of Late Jurassic sedimentary rock that is found in the western United States, which has a wide assortment of taxa represented in its fossil record, including dinosaur fossils in North America. It is composed of mudstone, sandstone, siltstone and limestone and is light grey, greenish gray, or red. Most of the fossils occur in the green siltstone beds and lower sandstones, relics of the rivers and floodplains of the Jurassic period.

(mostly from Foster [2003]; the higher-level classifications will vary as new finds are made.

Arthropods

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Taxon Reclassified taxon Taxon falsely reported as present Dubious taxon or junior synonym Ichnotaxon Ootaxon Morphotaxon
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Uncertain or tentative taxa are in small text; crossed out taxa are discredited.
Name Species Locality Material Notes

Eopolis

E. ekdalei

Utah, Brushy Basin member

Nests produced by social insects.

Morrisonnepa M. jurassica

Utah

A hemipteran belonging to the group Nepomorpha.
Parapleurites P. morrisonensis

Colorado

a forewing. A Locustopsid orthopteran

Tektonargus

T. kollaspilus

Colorado, Brushy Basin member

Five specimens were reported in the original description of the ichnogenus.

Fish

Although the paleoclimate of the Morrison formation was semiarid with only seasonal rainfall, there were enough bodies of water to support a diverse ichthyofauna. Although abundant, fish remains are constrained to only certain locations within the formation. Microvertebrate sites in Wyoming are dominated by fish remains. Indeterminate ray-finned fish remains have been recovered from Ninemile Hill and a microvertebrate site in the Black Hills. Found in stratigraphic zones 2, 4, and 5. Morrison actinopterygians generally have no close modern relatives. The Wyoming microvertebrate remains are extracted from the sediment by screenwashing. Paleoniscoid remains are geographically present in the western part of Colorado, where remains have been recovered from "a level above the Mygatt-Moore Quarry." Largely complete remains of small individuals have been consistently recovered for over 15 years. So far, Morrison pycnodontoids are represented by a single specimen from Dinosaur National Monument in Utah. Found in stratigraphic zone 4. Only a single specimen from Dinosaur National Monument in Utah has been recovered. Pycnodontoids were "deep-bodied and laterally compressed fish" whose tooth morphology suggest that they preyed on small contemporary invertebrates. They may have resembled modern butterfly fish. A single tooth is the only known remains. Dipnoan remains found at a fossil site not far from Cañon City, Colorado. Remains usually in a state of rather complete preservation. Halecostome remains are geographically present in the western part of Colorado, where remains have been recovered from "a level above the Mygatt-Moore Quarry." Largely complete remains of small individuals have been consistently recovered for over 15 years. Amiid remains found in stratigraphic zones 2, 3, and 4. Found at a fossil site not far from Cañon City, Colorado. Remains usually in a state of rather complete preservation.

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Uncertain or tentative taxa are in small text; crossed out taxa are discredited.
Name Species Locality Material Notes Images

Ceratodus

C. fossanovum

A lungfish genus whose members ranged from 1 to 2 m in length and weights of up to 79 pounds, with most Morrison lungfish being on the smaller end of that range. These species are believed to have had similar diets to extant lungfish like the physically similar modern genus Neoceratodus.

C. ?frazieri

C. guentheri

C. robustus

Indeterminate.

Brushy Basin and Saltwash members

Represented by tooth plates.

Hulettia

H. hawesi

Colorado

A small fish of the division Halecostomi about 7.6 cm in length and 5g of live mass which probably preferred quiet water. Its fossils prominently preserve its thick interlocking scales.

cf. Leptolepis

N/A

Colorado

Known only from a single nearly complete skeleton found at Rabbit Valley. Found in stratigraphic zone 5.

A 13 cm (5 inch) fish that was deeper bodied than its co-occurring contemporaries Morrolepis and Hulettia. The Morrison cf. Leptolepis probably had a live mass of about 37g. It is the only teleost fish known from the formation and was morphologically more highly derived than other Morrison fish. It is believed to have fed on contemporary fish and small invertebrates.

Morrolepis

M. schaefferi

Colorado

A palaeoniscoid with forward-set eyes positioned past the front end of the lower jaw. It had a tall dorsal fin set far back on the body and an asymmetrical caudal fin. Adult specimens would reach about 20 cm in length and 113 g (4 oz) in mass.

Potamoceratodus

P. guentheri

Colorado

Once thought to be a species of Ceratodus.

Amphibians

A modern frog from the same family as Rhadinosteus parvus, the rhinophrynidae.

According to museum curator John Foster, "frogs are known from several sites in the Morrison Formation but are not particularly well represented." The history of Morrison anuran discoveries began with the recovery of remains from Reed's Quarry 9 near Como Bluff Wyoming. The new genus Eobatrachus was erected for some of these remains by O. C. Marsh, but the material was later considered non-diagnostic. Decades later another dubious anuran genus, Comobatrachus was erected for addition fragmentary remains. Despite the erection of multiple new names, scientists only recognize two legitimate frog species from the Morrison, Enneabatrachus hechti and Rhadinosteus parvus.

In addition to formally named taxa, indeterminate anuran remains have been retrieved from Morrison strata in Colorado, Wyoming, and Utah, with the best specimens found in Dinosaur National Monument and Quarry 9. Stratigraphically speaking, indeterminate anurans have been found in stratigraphic zones 2 and 4. Indeterminate anurans with remains diagnostic down to the family level have also been reported from the Morrison. Pelobatids are represented by the illium of an unnamed, indeterminate species. A specimen has been recovered from Quarry 9 of Como Bluff in Wyoming. Pelobatids are present in stratigraphic zones 5 and 6.

Indeterminate salamander remains are present in stratigraphic zones 2, 4, and 5. A distinctive type of salamander known only as Caudata B is present in stratigraphic zone 6.

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Taxon Reclassified taxon Taxon falsely reported as present Dubious taxon or junior synonym Ichnotaxon Ootaxon Morphotaxon
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Uncertain or tentative taxa are in small text; crossed out taxa are discredited.
Name Species Locality Material Notes

Comobatrachus

C. aenigmaticus

Wyoming, Brushy Basin member

A partial right humerus.

A dubious genus of prehistoric frog erected by O. C. Marsh to house fragmentary remains recovered from Reed's Quarry 9 near Como Bluff Wyoming. Along with Eobatrachus it was among the earliest frog remains from the formation, although the two dubious genera were erected decades apart.

Comonecturoides

C. marshi

Wyoming, Brushy Basin member

Represented by a single femur.

Considered a nomen dubium because the name is based on non-distinctive remains which cannot be classified in detail.

Enneabatrachus

E. hechti

Utah and Wyoming

A small discoglossid frog whose live weight would have only been a few grams.

Eobatrachus

E. agilis

Wyoming, Brushy Basin member

A partial right humerus.

A dubious genus of prehistoric frog erected by O. C. Marsh to house fragmentary remains recovered from Reed's Quarry 9 near Como Bluff Wyoming. Along with Comobatrachus it was among the earliest frog remains from the formation, although the two dubious genera were erected decades apart.

Iridotriton

I. hechti

Utah, Brushy Basin

A partial skull and incomplete postcranial skeleton.

A basal salamandroid closely related to today's advanced salamanders.

Rhadinosteus

R. parvus

Utah

Known from several slabs of rock which contain multiple partial specimens in association.

A pipoid and possible rhinophrynid, Rhadinosteus parvus was only about 42 mm (1.6 inches) long in life.

Sphenodonts

Name Species Locality Material Notes

Eilenodon

E. robustus

Colorado

Several fragmentary skull, mandible, and tooth elements.

A sphenodontian of relatively large size.

Opisthias

O. rarus

Colorado, Utah and Wyoming, Brushy Basin member

Several skulls and partial skeletons.

A sphenodontian similar in appearance to the modern Tuatara

Theretairus

T. antiquus

Wyoming, Brushy Basin member

A mandible.

A small sphenodontian.

Lizards and snakes

Name Species Locality Material Notes

Diablophis

D. gilmorei

Colorado

A broken right maxilla, broken right mandible and broken right dentary. Broken axis vertebrae, precloacal vertebrae, one caudal vertebra and a possible sacral vertebra have also been found.

A basal snake. Originally described as a species of Parviraptor, subsequently moved to its own genus.

Dorsetisaurus

D. sp.

Wyoming, Utah and Colorado

Multiple dentaries.

An anguimorph lizard.

Paramacellodus

P. sp.

Colorado and Wyoming

Several jaws, two skulls, isolated jaw elements, osteoscutes and a small block bearing the posterior trunk vertebrae and hind limbs with a few ventral osteoscutes. Possibly a left prefrontal and postcranial material consisting of a scapulocoracoid, a trunk vertebra and multiple articulated bones consisting of a partial pelvis, seven caudal vertebrae and a nearly complete left hind limb.

A small scincomorph lizard with blunt teeth.

Saurillodon

S. sp

Colorado

A scincomorph lizard whose remains have been found in Middle Jurassic strata in England and Scotland as well as Late Jurassic strata in Portugal in addition to the Morrison formation remains.

Schillerosaurus

S. utahensis

Utah

Part and counterpart of a partial dissociated skeleton and a few limb bone fragments.

A small scincomorph lizard of otherwise uncertain evolutionary affinities. It is the only lizard genus endemic to the Morrison Formation.

Squamata

Indeterminate

Utah

Specimen DNM 14720.

A squamate of uncertain affinities. Noted as distinct from Paramacellodus and Dorsetisaurus, of which remains have been found in the same quarry.

Turtles

Turtles (Testudines) are very common fossils in the Morrison, due to their bony shells. The most common were Glyptops plicatus (very common) and Dinochelys whitei (also common, but not as common as Glyptops). Also present were Dorsetochelys buzzops and Uluops uluops.

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Taxon Reclassified taxon Taxon falsely reported as present Dubious taxon or junior synonym Ichnotaxon Ootaxon Morphotaxon
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Uncertain or tentative taxa are in small text; crossed out taxa are discredited.
Name Species Locality Material Notes

Chelonipus

Colorado and Utah, Salt Wash member

Compsemys

C. plicatulus

Colorado

Dinochelys

D. whitei

Colorado, Utah and Wyoming, Brushy Basin member

Several shells and some postcranial material.

Dorsetochelys

D. buzzops

Glyptops

G. plicatulus

Colorado and Wyoming, Brushy Basin member

Several shells, skulls, and partial skeletons.

G. ornatus

Wyoming, Brushy Basin member

A skull.

Synonym of Glyptops plicatulus.

G. utahensis

Utah, Brushy Basin member

A complete shell.

Synonym of Glyptops plicatulus.

Uluops

U. uluops

Wyoming, Brushy Basin member

A cranium.

Most basal Pleurosternid from the Morrison Formation.

Choristoderes

Name Species Locality Material Notes

Cteniogenys

C. antiquus

Colorado, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Utah and Wyoming

A champsosaur about 25 to 50 cm in length.

Crurotarsans

Crocodiles of a variety of sizes and habitats were common Morrison animals. Cursorial mesosuchians, or small terrestrial running crocs, included Hallopus victor and Fruitachampsa callisoni. More derived crocodilians included Diplosaurus ferox, Amphicotylus, Hoplosuchus kayi, and Macelognathus vagans.

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Uncertain or tentative taxa are in small text; crossed out taxa are discredited.
Name Species Locality Material Notes Images

Amphicotylus

A. gilmorei

Wyoming

A. lucasii

Colorado

A. milesi

Wyoming, Brushy Basin member

A nearly complete skeleton.

A. stovalli

Oklahoma

Diplosaurus

D. felix

Colorado

Eutretauranosuchus

E. delfsi

Colorado and Wyoming

Fruitachampsa

F. callisoni

Colorado, Brushy Basin and Saltwash members

Hallopus

H. victor

Colorado, Brushy Basin member

A partial skeleton including a fragmentary skull roof.

Hatcherichnus

H. sanjuanensis

Colorado and Utah

H. sp.

Utah and Wyoming, Salt Wash member

Hoplosuchus

H. kayi

Arizona and Utah

Macelognathus

M. vagans

Colorado and Wyoming, Brushy Basin member

A partial left mandible (type) and several fragmentary referred fossils.

Theriosuchus

T. morrisonensis

Wyoming

A nearly complete left mandible missing teeth.

Pterosaurs

Pterosaurs are very uncommon fossils in the Morrison, because the fragility of their thin walled bones often prevented their remains from being preserved. Despite being uncommon they are geographically widespread; indeterminate pterosaur remains have been found in stratigraphic zones 2 and 4-6. In addition to indeterminate remains, several species have been identified from both the rhamphorhynchoids (long-tailed pterosaurs) and pterodactyloids (short-tailed pterosaurs). Since the 1970s and 80s, pterosaur finds have become more common, but are still rare. Most Morrison pterosaurs have been found in marine and shoreline deposits. Pterosaur tracks have been found in both the Tidwell and Saltwash members. Morrison pterosaurs probably lived on fish, insects and scavenged dinosaur carcasses, or even foraged for prey, and actively hunted; they are fairly ecologically diverse, ranging from small hawking insectivore Mesadactylus to the raptorial Harpactognathus. While relatively few pterosaur genera are named from the Morrison Formation, fragmentary material that is not referrable to the genus level suggests the presence of dsungaripteroids, ctenochasmatids, dimorphodontids, and more tentatively wukongopterids and pteranodontians.

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Taxon Reclassified taxon Taxon falsely reported as present Dubious taxon or junior synonym Ichnotaxon Ootaxon Morphotaxon
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Uncertain or tentative taxa are in small text; crossed out taxa are discredited.
Name Species Locality Material Notes Images

Comodactylus

C. ostromi

Wyoming, Brushy Basin member

A metacarpal.

Nomen dubium

Dermodactylus

D. montanus

Wyoming, Brushy Basin member

A wing phalanx.

Nomen dubium

Harpactognathus

H. gentryii

Wyoming, Brushy Basin member

A partial snout.

A large rhamphorhynchid with a wingspan of about 2.5 m and live mass of about 1.5 kg (3.3 lbs). Harpactognathus was related to the Solnhofen genus Scaphognathus.

Kepodactylus

K. insperatus

Colorado, Brushy Basin member

A partial postcranial skeleton.

A large pterodactyloid with a 2.5 m (8 foot) wingspan and a live weight of about 1.5 kg (3 lbs). Kepodactylus may be related to the Asian dsungaripteroid pterosaurs.

Laopteryx

L. priscus

Wyoming, Brushy Basin member

A braincase.

Nomen dubium initially misidentified as a bird.

Mesadactylus

M. ornithosphyos

Colorado, Brushy Basin member

A synsacrum. Several specimens have been incorrectly referred to Mesadactylus.

Pteraichnus

P. saltwashensis'*

Arizona and Oklahoma, Saltwash member

Utahdactylus

U. kateae

Utah, Tidwell member

A fragmentary skeleton.

Previously thought to be an indeterminite diapsid, newer material suggests an affinity with ctenochasmatids.

Dinosaurs

Mammaliaforms

Many types of mammaliaform cynodonts, mostly early mammals, are known from the Morrison; almost all of them were small sized animals, though occupying a very large variety of ecological niches, from the more rodent-like multituberculates to the carnivorous eutriconodonts (including the possibly volant Triconolestes) to the anteater-like Fruitafossor. Unclassified types include the digger Fruitafossor windscheffelia. Docodonts included the common genus Docodon, represented by D. victor, D. striatus, and D. superbus, and Peraiocynodon sp. Multituberculates, a common type of early mammal, were represented by Ctenacodon serratus, C. laticeps, C. scindens, Glirodon grandis, Morrisonodon brentbaatar, Psalodon fortis, ?P. marshi, P. potens, and Zofiabaatar pulcher. Triconodonts present included Amphidon superstes, Aploconodon comoensis, Conodon gidleyi, Priacodon ferox, P. fruitaensis, P. gradaevus, P. lulli, P. robustus, Triconolestes curvicuspis, and Trioracodon bisulcus.

Tinodontids were represented by Eurylambia aequicrurius (probably Tinodon), and Tinodon bellus (including T. lepidus). Finally, two families of Dryolestoidea were present: Paurodontidae, including Comotherium richi, Euthlastus cordiformis, Paurodon valens, and Tathiodon agilis; and Dryolestidae, including Amblotherium gracilis, Dryolestes obtusus (common genus), D. priscus, D. vorax, Laolestes eminens, L. grandis, and Miccylotyrans minimus.

In 2009, a study by J. R. Foster was published which estimated the body masses of mammals from the Morrison Formation by using the ratio of dentary length to body mass of modern marsupials as a reference. Foster concludes that Docodon was the most massive mammaliaform genus of the formation at 141g and Fruitafossor was the least massive at 6g. The average Morrison mammal had a mass of 48.5g. A graph of the body mass distribution of Morrison mammal genera produced a right-skewed curve, meaning that there were more low-mass genera.

Tinodontids

Name Species Locality Material Notes

Eurylambia

E. aequicrurius

Wyoming

A tinodontid similar in appearance to Tinodon.

Tinodon

T. bellus

Wyoming

Tinodontids.

T. lepidus

Wyoming

Eutriconodonts

Name Species Locality Material Notes

Amphidon

A. superstes

Wyoming

A small amphidontid.

Aploconodon

A. comoensis

Wyoming

An amphilestid eutriconodont.

Comodon

C. gidleyi

Wyoming, Brushy Basin member

A mandible.

An amphilestid eutriconodont slightly larger in size than Aploconodon.

Phascalodon

P. gidleyi

Wyoming

Triconolestes

T. curvicuspis

Utah

A volaticotherian eutriconodont.

Trioracodon

T. bisulcus

Wyoming

A triconodontid eutriconodont similar to Priacodon.

Multituberculates

Name Species Locality Material Notes

Ctenacodon

C. laticeps

Wyoming

C. scindens

C. serratus

Wyoming

Glirodon

G. grandis

Colorado and Utah

Morrisonodon

M. brentbaatar

Wyoming

Priacodon

P. ferox

Wyoming

P. fruitaensis

Colorado

P. grandaevus

Wyoming

P. lulli

Wyoming

P. robustus

Wyoming

Psalodon

P. fortis

P. marshi

P. potens

Zofiabaatar

Z. pulcher

Wyoming

Others

Name Species Locality Material Notes Images

Cifellilestes

C. ciscoensis

Utah, Brushy Basin Member

Docodon

D. victor

Fruitafossor

F. windscheffeli

Colorado

Dryolestoids

Name Species Locality Material Notes

Amblotherium

A. gracilis

Colorado

A small Dryolestid dryolestoid.

A. megistodon

Wyoming

Araeodon

A. intermissus

Utah and Wyoming

A paurodontid dryolestoid, somewhat smaller than Archaeotrigon and Paurodon. Considered to be a junior synonym of Paurodon valens by Averianov and Martin (2015).

Archaeotrigon

A. brevimaxillus

Wyoming

Paurodontid dryolestoids similar in appearance to Paurodon. Both species were considered to be junior synonyms of Paurodon valens by Averianov and Martin (2015).

A. distagmus

Comotherium

C. richi

Wyoming

A paurodontid dryolestoid.

Dryolestes

D. obtusus

Dryolestid dryolestoids.

D. priscus

Wyoming

D. tenax

Euthlastus

E. cordiformis

Wyoming

A paurodontid dryolestoid.

Foxraptor

F. atrox

Wyoming

A paurodontid dryolestoid similar in size to Paurodon. Considered to be a junior synonym of Paurodon valens by Averianov and Martin (2015).

Herpetairus

H.

Kepolestes

K.

Colorado

Laolestes

L. eminens

Common Dryolestid dryolestoids.

L. grandis

Malthacolestes

M.

Melanodon

M.

Miccylotyrans

M. minimus

A Dryolestid dryolestoid.

Paurodon

P. valens

Wyoming

A paurodontid dryolestoid.

Pelicopsis

P. dubius

Wyoming

A paurodontid dryolestoid. Considered to be a junior synonym of Paurodon valens by Averianov and Martin (2015).

Tathiodon

T. agilis

Wyoming

A paurodontid dryolestoid.

See also

Footnotes

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  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i Foster, J. (2007). "Appendix." Jurassic West: The Dinosaurs of the Morrison Formation and Their World. Indiana University Press. pp. 327-329.
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  7. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw ax ay az ba bb Foster, J. (2007). "Table 2.1: Fossil Vertebrates of the Morrison Formation." pp. 58-59.
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