Red Rock Canyon Open Space (Fort Hays Mbr) (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as RRCOS

Where: El Paso County, Colorado (38.8° N, 104.9° W: paleocoordinates 40.8° N, 69.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Fort Hays Limestone Member (Niobrara Formation), Late/Upper Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; gray limestone and gray grainstone

• "alternating beds of light gray limestone and gray calcarenite shale"

Size class: macrofossils

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 179210: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 06.06.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
"Inoceramus deformis" = Cremnoceramus deformis
"Inoceramus deformis" = Cremnoceramus deformis Meek 1871 clam