Genus: Mymoorapelta KIRKLAND & CARPENTER, 1994
Etymology: Name honors Peter and Marilyn Mygatt and Jon D. and Vanetta Moore, who discovered the Mygatt-Moore Quarry; pelta-Greek for shield. Shield of Mygatt-Moore.

Species: maysi KIRKLAND & CARPENTER, 1994
Etymology: Species named for Chris Mays, president of Dinamation International Corporation and founder of the Dinamation International Society (a nonprofit organization to promote paleontology), who with DIS funded this research.

Holotype: MWC 1815

Locality: MWC Loc. 1.05.86, Mygatt-Moore (M&M) Quarry, Rabbit Valley, Mesa County, Western Colorado.

Horizon: Middle Brushy Basin Member, Morrison Formation.

Biostratigraphy: Zone 3.

Age: Comobluffian age, Kimmeridgian Stage, uppermost Malm Epoch, Late Jurassic.

Material: Complete left ilium with numerous grooves interpreted as tooth marks over dorsal shield.

Note: Type ilium has tooth marks from Allosaurus fragilis (FOSTER, 2005)

Hypodigm.

MWC 1800-1803: 4 dorsal vertebrae.

MWC 1804-1808, 1839a: 7 caudal vertebrae..

MWC 1809-1813, 1840: Several ribs.

MWC 1814: Ulna.

MWC 1816: A metacarpal.

MWC 1817: A pedal ungual.

MWC 939: A probable pedal ungual.

MWC 1818: 1 large triangular cervical spine.

MWC 1819-1824, 2677, 2678: 8 caudal dermal spines.

MWC 1825: 1 small solid, triangular dermal spine.

MWC 1826-1830: 5 circular to oval dorsal scutes.

MWC 1831: 1 dorsal scute wider than long.

MWC 1832-1833: 2 rectangular dorsal scutes.

MWC 1834: 1 massive dorsal scute.

MWC 1835-1837: 3 large asymmetric dorsal scutes.

MWC 1838: 1 large sacral shield fragment.

KIRKLAND, CARPENTER, HUNT & SCHETTZ, 1998

MWC 2843: Jugal.

 


Locality: MWC locality, Hups Cactus Park Quarry, Uncompahgre Plateau, Mesa County, Colorado.

Horizon: Middle to upper Brushy Basin Member, Morrison Formation.

Biostratigraphy: Zone 3.

Age: Comobluffian age, Kimmeridgian Stage, uppermost Malm Epoch, Late Jurassic.

Material:

MWC 2610: Partially articulated skeleton.