Red Rock Canyon Open Space (Codell Sandstone) (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as RRCOS

Where: El Paso County, Colorado (38.8° N, 104.9° W: paleocoordinates 40.5° N, 69.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Codell Sandstone Member (Carlile Shale Formation), Turonian (93.9 - 89.8 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; bioturbated, fine-grained, medium, brown, yellow grainstone

• "fine-medium grained yellow-brown calcarenite"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: trace

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: S. Milito. 2010. A survey of fossils and geology of Red Rock Canyon Open Space, Colorado Springs, Colorado. The Mountain Geologist 47(1):1-14 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 179209: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 06.06.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Osteichthyes
 Osteichthyes -
Osteichthyes indet.
Osteichthyes indet. Huxley 1880 bony fish
"fish bones"
Reptilia
 Squamata - Mosasauridae
? Mosasauridae indet.
? Mosasauridae indet. Gervais 1852 mosasaur
palatine tooth
Chondrichthyes
 Lamniformes - Anacoracidae
Squalicorax falcatus
Squalicorax falcatus Agassiz 1843 crow shark
 Hybodontiformes - Ptychodontidae
Ptychodus whipplei
Ptychodus whipplei Marcou 1858 elasmobranch
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Collignoniceratidae
Prionocyclus sp.
Prionocyclus sp. Meek 1876 ammonite
imprints