Colorado Formation
96 distinct taxa, from 135 fossil occurrences the Paleobiology Database records under this name.
The Paleobiology Database files this name in 2 countries. That can be one body of rock crossing a border, or two rocks that happen to share a name. The database does not say which, so nothing below is added across them.
New Mexico · US
67 taxa · 100 fossils · 101–90 MyaMembers recorded: Sandstone and Shale.
Macrostrat dates this rock 96–91 Ma. Macrostrat’s own record
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10 distinct localities, where the rock is now rather than where it was laid down. Tectonics draws the world it belonged to.
When
What has been found
- Neocardioceras juddii
- Burroceras clydense
- Vascoceras
- Calycoceras (Calycoceras) naviculare
- Cymbophora
- Pseudaspidoceras pseudonodosoides
- Vascoceras gamai
- Carota
- Corbula
- Gyrodes
- Infabricaticeras lunaense
- Inoceramus
- Kamerunoceras
- Mammites nodosoides
- Metoicoceras
- Mytiloides mytiloides
- Ostrea
- Pseudocalycoceras angolaense
- Vascoceras barcoicense
- Alzadites
- Anisoceras
- Aphrodina
- Burroceras
- Burroceras transitorium
- Calycoceras (Calycoceras) inflatum
- Calycoceras (Proeucalycoceras) bruni
- Cardium
- Choffaticeras
- Cunningtoniceras
- Cunningtoniceras novimexicanum
- Cyprimeria
- Euomphaloceras septemseriatum
- Fagesia
- Forbesiceras
- Gyrodes depressa
- Hamites
- Knemiceras
- Metoicoceras geslinianum
- Metoicoceras mosbyense
- Microdiphasoceras
The 40 most often recorded, of 67.
Buenos Aires · AR
29 taxa · 35 fossils · 84–72 MyaLoading coastlines…
1 distinct localities, where the rock is now rather than where it was laid down. Tectonics draws the world it belonged to.
When
What has been found
- Acuturris scotus
- Arkhangelskiella cymbiformis
- Arkhangelskiella maastrichtiana
- Biscutum magnum
- Biscutum melaniae
- Calculites obscurus
- Chiastozygus synquadriperforatus
- Coccolithus pelagicus
- Cribrosphaerella ehrenbergii
- Cruciplacolithus primus
- Eiffellithus gorkae
- Eiffellithus turriseiffelii
- Gartnerago segmentatum
- Helicolithus trabeculatus
- Kamptnerius magnificus
- Lucianorhabdus maleformis
- Micrantholithus
- Micula
- Micula concava
- Micula staurophora
- Nephrolithus frequens
- Prediscosphaera cretacea
- Prediscosphaera stoveri
- Reinhardtites anthophorus
- Seribiscutum primitivum
- Staurolithites zoensis
- Thoracosphaera
- Toweius africanus
- Zeugrhabdotus erectus
What else lived thenRank the rock of a period
Counts are of occurrence records, which measure the rock and the fieldwork together.