The Skull Creek Shale is a Cretaceous geologic formation in Wyoming as well as Colorado and Nebraska, United States.[1]
The Skull Creek Shale corresponds with the Kiowa Shale.[1]
^ abR.J. Weimer (1984). J.S. Schlee (ed.). "Relation of unconformities, tectonics, and sea-level changes, Cretaceous of Western Interior, United States" (PDF). AAPG Memoir (Memoir 36, Interregional unconformities and hydrocarbon accumulation). American Association of Petroleum Geologists: 405–414. Retrieved April 15, 2022.
is older than any other Cretaceous rock in Colorado or Kansas. The SkullCreekShale and Plainview Sandstone of Colorado are also included in the Dakota...
horned dinosaur specimen MOR 591, a subadult skull and partial postcranial skeleton, near the Blacktail Creek. It was initially assumed that all the horned...
Fourche Shale and Mowry Shale, terrestrial Newcastle Sandstone (a tongue of Dakota Formation from the southeast of South Dakota), and marine SkullCreek Shale...
The specimen included a complete skull and more than 20 cervical vertebrae ( KUVP 1301) that were found near Hell Creek in western Kansas by Judge E.P....
Member is geologically equivalent to the SkullCreekShale. Muddy Sandstone Member—This member of the Thermopolis Shale was first briefly described by Darton...
The Pierre Shale is a geologic formation or series in the Upper Cretaceous which occurs east of the Rocky Mountains in the Great Plains, from Pembina...
of the Rocky Mountains certain mappable marine shales are identified as formations (e.g., SkullCreek, Graneros), correlated deposits within the distribution...
equivalent to the lower Ashville Formation in southern Manitoba, the SkullCreekShale in North Dakota and parts of the Blackleaf Formation in northern Montana...
Rica Sandstone. The formation is interpreted as marine shales deposited during the Kiowa-SkullCreek transgression. It is likely the lateral equivalent of...
in the Shell Creek Member, the uppermost of the three members of the Thermopolis Shale, during the spring of 1993. The specimen's skull is complete and...
Fourche Shale in the Rattlesnake Hills of Wyoming (lower Cenomanian), but the Carnegie Museum collections data says its from the Hailey Shales Formation...
Sunspot Mine at Mazon Creek, Illinois. Mann and Maddin (2019) diagnose Diabloroter by the following features: (1) long maxilla; (2) skull roof ornamented with...
The Bearpaw Formation, also called the Bearpaw Shale, is a geologic formation of Late Cretaceous (Campanian) age. It outcrops in the U.S. state of Montana...
the Quaternary-Tertiary. It overlooks the Jose Creek Member and is composed of purple and maroon shales. When they meet, it is marked by a basal conglomerate...
sp. during the Campanian. A study on a skull of a specimen of Plioplatecarpus from the Campanian Bearpaw Shale (Alberta, Canada) preserved with a sclerotic...
W.G. Pierce as thick-bedded, buff-colored sandstone, and drab to green shale. It is Upper Cretaceous in age. The formation varies in thickness from about...
skulls in a chalk quarry near the Dutch city of Maastricht in the late 18th century, and were initially thought to be crocodiles or whales. One skull...
The Kirtland Formation (originally the Kirtland Shale) is a sedimentary geological formation. The Kirtland Formation is the product of alluvial muds and...
bolti, a short-bodied recumbirostran 'microsaur' from the Francis CreekShale, Mazon Creek, Illinois". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 187 (2):...
Ctenospondylus had a long tail, short back spines, and a very deep yet narrow skull with massive jaws that had sharp teeth. Because of its large size, it was...
skulls were incased in a hard matrix of arenaceous shale, and had been broken in many pieces." The type species, A. browni, was coined for the skull UC...
Terlingua Creek Sandstone, it is likely that the Upper Shale was younger than 80.2 Ma. A radiometric date of 76.9 Ma was recovered in the Upper Shale, making...
Land-Mammal Age), and is composed of mudstone, sandstone, carbonaceous shales, and coal seams. A variety of depositional environments are represented...
Some 30 complete specimens of this new species were found in the black shale lagerstätte on Waterloo Farm, preserved by the mud of an ancient estuary...
environment, similar to the discovery of T. alexandrae, was also marine shale, and marl. This specimen was discovered and collected by the Royal Tyrrell...
for entirely aquatic animals to survive in. Research done at the Speiser Shale of eastern Kansas suggests that many amphibians living in the area would...