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Carlile Shale - Turner Sandy, USA
Formation | Carlile Shale |
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Member | Turner Sandy |
Age: | 93.5 - 89.3 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous |
Interval | Middle Turonian |
Lithology | sandstone, "shale"/sandstone, siltstone |
Number of Collections | 5 |
Number of Occurrences | 5 |
Recorded Sample Locations
Location | Region | Stratigraphic Name |
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USGS Loc. D203 | Sheridan County, Nebraska, USA | Carlile Shale - Turner Sandy |
USGS Loc. D13832 | Fall River County, South Dakota, USA | Carlile Shale - Turner Sandy |
USGS Loc. D8849 | Niobrara County, Wyoming, USA | Carlile Shale - Turner Sandy |
USGS Loc. D12215 | Fall River County, South Dakota, USA | Carlile Shale - Turner Sandy |
Associated Units
Stratigraphic Name | Age | Lithology | Occurrence Records |
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Carlile Shale | 93.5 - 89.3 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous | shale, claystone | 43 |
Carlile Shale - Pool Creek | 93.5 - 89.3 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous | shale | 3 |
Pierre Shale | 70.6 - 66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous | shale/"limestone", "shale", marl/claystone, "limestone", sandstone, siltstone, "siliciclastic" | 273 |
Recorded Fossils
Accepted Name | Hierarchy | Age |
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Collignoniceras praecox species | Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Ammonoidea : Collignoniceratidae : Collignoniceras : Collignoniceras praecox | 93.5 - 89.3 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous |
Collignoniceras woollgari species | Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Ammonitida : Collignoniceratidae : Collignoniceras : Collignoniceras woollgari | 93.5 - 89.3 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous |
Prionocyclus novimexicanus species | Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Ammonoidea : Collignoniceratidae : Prionocyclus : Prionocyclus novimexicanus | 93.5 - 89.3 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous |
References
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!