Red Rock Canyon Open Space (Codell Sandstone): Turonian, Colorado

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Collignoniceratidae
Prionocyclus sp. Meek 1876
imprints
Chondrichthyes - Hybodontiformes - Ptychodontidae
Ptychodus whipplei Marcou 1858
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Anacoracidae
Squalicorax falcatus (Agassiz 1843)
unclassified
Osteichthyes indet. (Huxley 1880)
"fish bones"
Reptilia - Mosasauridae
? Mosasauridae indet. Gervais 1852
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]