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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Como Bluff canonical 3

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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 ⓘ
Brontosaurus ⓘ
linked to: Apatosaurus

Camarasaurus ⓘ
Diplodocus ⓘ
Dryosaurus ⓘ
Othnielosaurus ⓘ
Stegosaurus ⓘ

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Allosaurus → fossilSite → Como Bluff ⓘ