Also known as Rose Quarry

Where: Grant County, South Dakota (45.2° N, 96.5° W: paleocoordinates 44.7° N, 58.8° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Benton Group, Turonian (93.9 - 89.8 Ma)

• equivalent to Carlisle Shale of Benton Group

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shoreface; marl and rubbly, argillaceous conglomerate

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected in the 1953, 2000s

Collection methods: salvage, quarrying, surface (in situ),

• Found during stripping of overburden at a granite quarry.

Primary reference: R. Zangerl and R. E. Sloan. 1960. A new specimen of Desmatochelys lowi Williston: a primitive cheloniid sea turtle from the Cretaceous of South Dakota. Fieldiana: Geology 14(2):7-40 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 181902: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 07.10.2016

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