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Corral Bluffs

Corral Bluffs is a fossil site outside of Colorado Springs, Colorado. It has been designated a Colorado Natural Area by the state of Colorado. Scientists from the Denver Museum of Nature and Science have found thousands of exceptionally preserved plant and animal fossils dating back to the first million years following the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event.

Fossils

Several mammalian skulls were found in a type of rock called concretion. Among these was a skull belonging to a newly discovered species of small omnivore, Militocodon lydae.

Dinosaur fossils have been found at the base of the bluffs.

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