Also known as Rose Quarry
Where: Grant County, South Dakota (45.2° N, 96.5° W: paleocoordinates 44.7° N, 58.8° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Benton Group, Turonian (93.9 - 89.8 Ma)
• equivalent to Carlisle Shale of Benton Group
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shoreface; marl and rubbly, argillaceous conglomerate
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected in the 1953, 2000s
Collection methods: salvage, quarrying, surface (in situ),
• Found during stripping of overburden at a granite quarry.
Primary reference: R. Zangerl and R. E. Sloan. 1960. A new specimen of Desmatochelys lowi Williston: a primitive cheloniid sea turtle from the Cretaceous of South Dakota. Fieldiana: Geology 14(2):7-40 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 181902: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 07.10.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Actinopteri | |
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Ichthyodectes ctenodon Cope 1870 | |
Gillicus arcuatus Cope 1875 | |
Pachyrhizodus minimus Stewart 1899 | |
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Enchodus sp. Agassiz 1835 | |
Reptilia | |
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Mosasauridae indet. Gervais 1852 mosasaur | |
"Desmatochelys lowi" = Desmatochelys lowii
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Aves | |
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Chondrichthyes | |
Cretomanta canadensis Case et al. 1990 mackerel shark | |
"Scapanorhynchus raphiodon" = Scapanorhynchus rhaphiodon
"Scapanorhynchus raphiodon" = Scapanorhynchus rhaphiodon Agassiz 1843 goblin shark | |
Squalicorax falcatus Agassiz 1843 crow shark | |
Cretodus crassidens Dixon 1850 mackerel shark | |
"Cretolamna appendiculata" = Cretalamna appendiculata
"Cretolamna appendiculata" = Cretalamna appendiculata Agassiz 1835 mackerel shark | |
Leptostyrax compressidens mackerel shark | |
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Cretoxyrhina mantelli Agassiz 1835 mackerel shark | |
Ptychotrygon triangularis Reuss 1845 ray | |
Pseudohypolophus mcnultyi Thurmond 1971 guitarfish | |
Ptychodus anonymus Williston 1900 elasmobranch
Ptychodus whipplei Marcou 1858 elasmobranch |