Red Rock Canyon Open Space (Codell Sandstone): Turonian, Colorado
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda
- Ammonitida
- Collignoniceratidae
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Prionocyclus sp.
Meek 1876
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imprints | ||||||||||
Chondrichthyes
- Hybodontiformes
- Ptychodontidae
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Ptychodus whipplei
Marcou 1858
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Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Anacoracidae
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Squalicorax falcatus
(Agassiz 1843)
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unclassified
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Osteichthyes indet.
(Huxley 1880)
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"fish bones" | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Mosasauridae
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? Mosasauridae indet.
Gervais 1852
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1 specimen | |||||||||
palatine tooth | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Colorado | County: | El Paso |
Coordinates: | 38.8° North, 104.9° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 40.5° North, 69.4° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||||
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
Stage: | Turonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 6 |
Key time interval: | Turonian | ||
Age range of interval: | 93.90000 - 89.80000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Geological group: | Colorado | Formation: | Carlile Shale | Member: | Codell Sandstone |
Stratigraphic resolution: | member |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | bioturbation,fine,medium,brown,yellow grainstone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: "fine-medium grained yellow-brown calcarenite" | |
Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body,trace |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Fragmentation: | frequent |
Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | surface (in situ),field collection,observed (not collected) |
Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
Also known as: | RRCOS | ||
Database number: | 179209 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2016-06-06 14:18:26 | Last modified: | 2016-06-06 14:20:15 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2016-06-06 14:18:26 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
59328. | 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] |