Carlile Shale
148 distinct taxa, from 332 fossil occurrences the Paleobiology Database records under this name, spanning 94–86 Mya.
Kansas, South Dakota, Nebraska, Wyoming · US
148 taxa · 332 fossils · 94–86 MyaFiled under the Colorado Group. Members recorded: Blue Hill, Fairport, Codell Sandstone, Turner Sandy, Pool Creek, Blue Hill Shale, Codell Sandstone/Blue Hill, Fairport Chalk, Sage Breaks Shale.
Macrostrat places this rock in the Colorado Group. Macrostrat’s own record
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68 distinct localities, where the rock is now rather than where it was laid down. Tectonics draws the world it belonged to.
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What has been found
- Tragodesmoceras carlilense
- Stramentum elegans
- Ptychodus whipplei
- Squalicorax falcatus
- Cretalamna appendiculata
- Collignoniceras woollgari
- Collignoniceras praecox
- Cretodus crassidens
- Cretoxyrhina mantelli
- Prionocyclus novimexicanus
- Rhinobatos incertus
- Johnlongia parvidens
- Mosasauridae
- Scapanorhynchus raphiodon
- Squalicorax
- Trinacromerum bentonianum
- Cantioscyllium decipiens
- Chiloscyllium greeni
- Collignoniceras woollgari regulare
- Cretomanta canadensis
- Enchodus shumardi
- Ptychodus anonymus
- Ptychotrygon triangularis
- Romaniceras (Romaniceras) mexicanum
- Xiphactinus audax
- Anacoracidae
- Collignoniceras percarinatum
- Dallasiella willistoni
- Enchodus gladiolus
- Inoceramus (Inoceramus) cuvierii
- Ischyrhiza mira
- Pachyrhizodus minimus
- Pliosauridae
- Pseudohypolophus mcnultyi
- Ptychodus
- Squalicorax pawpawensis
- Albulidae
- Anomoeodus
- Archaeolamna kopingensis
- Carcharias
The 40 most often recorded, of 148.
What else lived thenRank the rock of a period
Counts are of occurrence records, which measure the rock and the fieldwork together.