Locality V-2, Black Squirrel Creek (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as Ellicott, Loc. 16, UCM Loc. 83096

Where: El Paso County, Colorado (38.8° N, 104.4° W: paleocoordinates 45.4° N, 80.8° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Denver Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coarse channel fill; gray claystone and sandstone

• "a clay pellet bearing arkosic sand that fills a small channel-like depression cut in a gray clay"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by C. Dane & W. Pierce in 1931-1932; reposited in the UCM

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: C. H. Dane and W. G. Pierce. 1936. Dawson and Laramie formations in southeastern part of Denver Basin, Colorado. Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists 20(10):1308-1328 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 49531: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 19.04.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Ceratopsidae
Ceratopsidae indet.
Ceratopsidae indet. Marsh 1888 ceratopsid
articulated vertebrae, several limb bones, tibs, sacral articulated with ilia