USGS 743, Quillian's Ranch (Cretaceous of the United States)

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

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Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Cassiduloida -
"Cassidulus stantoni n. sp." = Hardouinia stantoni
"Cassidulus stantoni n. sp." = Hardouinia stantoni Clark 1891 sea urchin