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unusual facts about Mancos Shale


Collignoniceras

C. w. woollgari has been found with Mammites depressus at the top of the lower shale tongue and lowermost overlying Tres Hermanos sandstone member of the Mancos Shale in New Mexico, in a shale bed at the top of the Greenhorn Formation in Colorado, and alone in sandstone and shale in the upper Frontier Formation in Wyoming.


Giles, Utah

The settlement was known as Blue Valley for its blue-gray soil, colored by Bentonite clay and Mancos Shale.


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