Nanosaurus is an extinct genus of neornithischian dinosaur that lived about 155 to 148 million years ago, during the Late Jurassic in North America. Its fossils are known from the Morrison Formation o
Type specimen of Nanosaurus agilis Marsh 1877 (YPM VP 1913) as illustrated in 1908 (left) and cast of the bone impressions after the fragmentary bone was removed (right)
Othniel Charles Marsh's 1896 skeletal restoration of "Laosaurus" consors (now Nanosaurus).
Skeleton with outdated skull-shape based on Hypsilophodon
Como Bluff is a long ridge extending east–west, located between the towns of Rock River and Medicine Bow, Wyoming. The ridge is an anticline, formed as a result of compressional geological folding. Th
Multicolored (variegated) beds of the Morrison Formation at Como Bluff, Wyoming. Many historical dinosaur sites are located along the flanks of the bluff. The Sundance Formation is visible as the reddish beds at the base of the bluff.
The Fossil Cabin at Como Bluff, built in 1932 from broken dinosaur bones.