Where: Huerfano County, Colorado (37.9° N, 105.2° W: paleocoordinates 40.0° N, 70.5° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Codell Sandstone Member (Carlile Shale Formation), Middle Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by T.W. Stanton; reposited in the USNM
Primary reference: C. W. Cooke. 1953. American Upper Cretaceous Echinoidea. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 254-A:1-44 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 78139: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 29.01.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea | |
"Cassidulus stantoni n. sp." = Hardouinia stantoni
"Cassidulus stantoni n. sp." = Hardouinia stantoni Clark 1891 sea urchin |