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

Also known as RRCOS

Where: El Paso County, Colorado (38.8° N, 104.9° W: paleocoordinates 37.7° N, 62.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Dakota Group, Albian (113.0 - 100.5 Ma)

• lower part of formation

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; quartzose sandstone

• "very fine-grained quartz sandstone; lower trough crossbeds; upper platy sandstoneand mudstone; ripples"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression, trace

Collection methods: surface (float), 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 179208: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 06.06.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Ornithischia -
Ankylosauria indet., Iguanodontia indet.
Ankylosauria indet. Osborn 1923 ankylosaur
individual tracks
Iguanodontia indet. ornithopod
individual tracks